• A former Netflix executive testified in the $11 million criminal fraud trial of Carl Rinsch. • The executive said Rinsch presented him with a coffee table book with pictures from the production. • It was the culmination of multiple points of failure for the ambitious sci-fi project.

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 a downtown Manhattan federal courtroom, Friedlander told the jury about being "blown away" by early footage of Rinsch's series before finding himself chasing the director f

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