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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) ?) A7 w0 l# V, ], `$ {Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN1 h* ?8 G6 i( B+ C" `
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 Y# A ?; B+ s8 R
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 o. d/ _/ \; u y$ b
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 u! _3 L8 M2 R, \bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January% `# D7 o, L Y; u# k) d
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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.
U6 F% k7 T/ ?: U2 E$ v”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: h8 j/ v. ]; l [- y. [ E$ r
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be% o2 x) }/ b' i5 {! ?' f
pure luck.
( s; Q( O/ H# m( K2 n# @”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
' e5 p' T6 Z- f( D* LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”! S- \2 k \6 h i5 @# {; e2 S
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin0 J! g! k$ J: b# m8 }
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall! D3 S |4 p. p9 x3 C4 t& }
Street watchdogs.7 T* p% B& T4 O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
7 X' X% e; R# a+ t+ T UMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% ^1 u+ {! J3 R4 U( m+ L2 g: J
investigation.$ |5 k# d) F5 {
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- y$ n6 U3 z% v* {# afour-hour confession.
+ p! N# c) [# r! JCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
) Q. n' n4 O; k) xknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with+ b( ]3 D4 `* K5 w* Q
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.6 Y }: O' ^1 s9 ]( y: l" g$ h1 ?
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& O3 L k' U- B5 s0 a' kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
( h# K- o$ S/ k9 ~in the moment.”; @& u1 y. o! W: g- \
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 y% F' P4 R% g- u! e# J1 A! A
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
( e& X- J. D v; F5 Q3 Y7 sAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 c9 i3 L2 x8 a1 ^. r8 d% YHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& L5 |& K" D1 m7 R& F" m `
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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