fraud

I always get a kick out of people’s reactions when I bring up what I’ve come to think of as “mini crimes” against big businesses — small acts of deviance that average shoppers commit without really even thinking about it. At first, there’s usually denial: “No, I would never engage…

After a week of testimony about how Carl Rinsch spent millions of dollars on luxury mattresses, Uber Eats, Rolls-Royces, and stock and crypto trades — but not the sci-fi epic that Netflix ordered — the director got to tell his side of the story.On the witness stand Tuesday, Rinsch cast…

He didn’t get a visionary Netflix series. But at least he got a coffee table book.Former Netflix executive Peter Friedlander testified Tuesday about director-producer Carl Rinsch’s failure to deliver “White Horse,” which was supposed to be a futuristic sci-fi show that turned into a Hollywood debacle.At Rinsch’s criminal trial, in…