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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf8 l( N' T3 V- A
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 N4 D- Z& M8 B! h
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; q i# ^# j& N7 z1 D a
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. U, B0 P- S6 P( V; s# G: _8 jcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 a" E' I* L7 v0 p/ z1 OSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 V* @* V/ g9 S
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January, H% j& h" ?9 h2 B! |- ^$ g9 a. K
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
& i. b. X z$ e6 V$ a8 p”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over+ {1 p p% I4 B+ F+ w8 B6 y
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be. ~1 Z) N a( O5 @# S
pure luck.6 c% M X: l! H
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) }, T: X! R8 W
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# [1 O8 w9 _5 m- ]The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
( D9 D/ K5 t6 Z0 ]$ n& tmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall: F! [& v3 b0 ^" U; h
Street watchdogs.4 X* e+ e' }2 M; A0 n
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
3 l9 X p' t' P. X$ k! f6 K# AMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 ^3 t. B! H9 ~8 }
investigation.
) j0 }. i: {* Q5 R: N" ZWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
& l! T1 }0 g lfour-hour confession.
) j# C3 c4 j* d2 Y5 e/ C$ e& wCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 G% h; ]9 v: U
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 b4 a& I! y, B0 R: N
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.0 h- l+ M3 h6 j9 |6 a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! d# `5 C/ f& \) S! v) @! Tmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ d+ d& P6 M" L8 c b
in the moment.”8 p3 I ` M: A. P5 T
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
, L- U9 l- g0 H$ u4 j8 rOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& X) X( M- I: e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
O& }* U7 }! z; ZHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; U+ b! r& v, K. j& l7 V0 b. T
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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