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9 i9 k* C8 }" J: o/ k/ \‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; J/ E0 w& r! O- a+ i2 a c
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% B$ R1 i( P8 T5 m, u
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
$ n" ?1 W% q7 | gcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 ~2 \3 G; z% q, @5 FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the `3 z' K2 F& z) m% l
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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: Y5 N h- q `4 @" a& ^. y* G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over) ]6 U1 m+ Q4 l1 h, f" U7 g# d
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 x, y0 p- H# T h6 ppure luck.9 y$ |% I6 O4 [" |; [+ `
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
' G& p! Z0 a$ kIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”7 @! L1 d, T+ r" h
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: G7 n' L7 ~7 q0 ^$ s0 h$ Kmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( [4 {7 M6 i1 e% M- S; W# DStreet watchdogs.
% E6 {( L% D% _( v# a”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( t: w' M/ o- N) QMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 @2 r2 g* O9 E
investigation.
: X; d& v1 Y- [$ ]3 V- G2 j- G; QWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% |0 Q" N5 s! I% |, v# i/ I
four-hour confession.
6 g7 i* q; c, z: n6 `Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 B- G9 x( Y7 o- X! s5 `knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
, E# a# M; |: _: s8 \, Cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% n5 ^* \: v; j% J* y* x9 _" n% J( V”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) E& a5 @; b& H- j7 M
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# F% ~6 I- l8 X c: G5 d! N
in the moment.”
# ^6 z# X$ B G- D9 tIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of, q, \* k1 L; Q4 c; g
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ O$ | }1 h$ l, K4 tAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
V7 L' ]/ w% w: n4 U }/ |6 lHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
; D/ O3 @* K* b7 Q X {" @the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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