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From: danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv,rec.arts.sf.tv
Subject: Feds charge writer w Big Fraud re: SF tv non-production
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 02:14:06 +0000
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[DOJ press release]

  Los Angeles Director And Writer Charged With $11 Million Fraud In 
Connection With Streaming Science Fiction Television Show

Matthew Podolsky, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern 
District of New York, and Leslie Backschies, the Assistant Director in 
Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 
("FBI"), announced the unsealing of a seven-count Indictment charging CARL 
ERIK RINSCH [a] for engaging in a scheme to defraud a subscription video 
on-demand streaming service ("Streaming Company-1") in connection with a 
planned science fiction television show called "White Horse."  RINSCH was 
arrested today in West Hollywood, California, and will be presented later 
today in the Central District of California.  The case is assigned to U.S. 
District Judge Jed S. Rakoff.

     Acting U.S. Attorney Matthew Podolsky said: "As alleged, Carl Erik 
Rinsch orchestrated a scheme to steal millions by soliciting a large 
investment from a video streaming service, claiming that money would be 
used to finance a television show that he was creating. But that was 
fiction. Rinsch instead allegedly used the funds on personal expenses and 
investments, including highly speculative options and cryptocurrency 
trading..."
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rest:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/los-angeles-director-and-writer-charged-11-million-fraud-connection-streaming-science

[a] note the mandatory "three name rule"...


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