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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: R/ R* q" G! ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% i! S3 i4 T. b* w' T2 J
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
7 g# w. q& X0 g O% S; tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 Y( n& Q! u* |Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 |1 s, ?6 F1 K& ?$ E2 tbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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- B! |% o) V) Q0 o”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.* S5 }. |! R& N/ E
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& P7 f" i4 Q/ H- j$ B1 W* e# c$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' o# V+ y" O: g0 Rpure luck.
/ e$ `1 Z- l( {2 [; T! O4 p”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
2 ]" i6 k% _8 _Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”6 m1 P$ @, _, N/ E6 z( l
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
, `; i0 N3 y. ?1 l! t6 Cmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall9 Y5 ?( E) Q c0 z2 r6 V V/ ~
Street watchdogs.) ]! T5 V7 [$ X9 u1 s
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, A0 j1 @$ y. {8 _Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
5 Y7 m/ l' \3 w6 iinvestigation.% Z ~, [) E! v7 n3 l: p! A
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 K% d0 K/ b& I& S7 jfour-hour confession.$ D' l. ]& q0 y! Q# F
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ x- x+ N" g, e% b* ]- p/ K
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
7 P+ W: D* E; M) |+ sknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 R7 Y! ~4 n: J' j1 ?9 k7 M1 q: V2 A
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to# P+ x8 y8 N, y' b* I4 v# ~
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
$ R. V( ?& [* e7 _) h- j1 Ein the moment.”4 R2 r' F9 N4 |# n9 v
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% m/ t; w: b' ?0 U: LOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 r! B1 a. Y8 |5 T( o C& \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”" I( j7 ^, e9 U
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ J$ ]( Q8 W1 I
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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