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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# Q J8 U5 z3 U$ g2 K/ e
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 ?7 I+ |: ]5 V9 n: VNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading% X. D3 d6 J3 G& n* I/ w
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
. r" ^% ?. F/ n- w" a+ w$ ISources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: {- }9 X+ `0 [6 T2 D" Hbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January7 v% w, S1 X+ p$ U
28.
( V; \8 k' u5 d: H5 E”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.5 S; l$ R% g% C9 v1 x: X
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
3 W1 I6 T# T8 }! T& Z0 n) R3 v# U$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& s( V2 ~- D+ V9 W9 S+ I8 Tpure luck.
2 ^. c% }7 z. r7 R6 `8 y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers% H9 |, v {2 }$ H' F2 h+ E
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
3 y/ |2 r$ U$ D4 TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ _( k1 a/ Y4 c) _. `9 n5 j* ^# [
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 S" a- c- R6 J6 {* [+ w2 ^) x) T2 v
Street watchdogs.$ `: h. I% g* e9 P# q1 i3 W+ b# e
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," u# a* t. {0 g! m
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 z& X+ j2 z4 g1 k: c6 W2 K/ q
investigation.7 {8 @8 U4 M: u, M
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
* D7 |; P/ A0 U4 A3 U5 m; T' }four-hour confession.
+ W- I8 P( _( W5 m( H2 @. K8 hCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common7 a2 F! K( x2 |' Z$ N. M
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: y$ A' ~" Y% `9 w$ ^
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) W' B+ H! u- D6 R# N! R/ M
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( e( f3 B( B0 o0 O' _4 S2 \
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- P- g$ l3 \ f) ~
in the moment.”& C2 x2 N0 Q3 n6 E6 w+ {
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
6 z/ t7 c% ^' y& r, oOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
- R) x5 w8 Y1 t/ A" w5 O) TAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
! {/ v3 e, w# q. l4 gHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' v3 U. x8 v A# Q0 Q
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