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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 o/ A q! L; yWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 A) f2 k/ F! N; `
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ C# |& T3 G9 V1 ] u
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 V% i" }0 e$ b( fSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 X* R7 w& W u& Lbizarre 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." A: Z3 C0 U p9 Z" ^" h
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 e2 v2 v8 Q% \& O* P/ \% U
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
9 |9 B+ O4 S; b; Q+ W& a( _4 Xpure luck.) v& E7 n, Y: T
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: R5 V& o* t+ D; F1 k/ eIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# N" `" U4 v9 y/ v) E, z5 iThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
S- A# E. h' I- B6 s" @8 Nmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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* b$ H1 ?9 Y" q x2 o2 x* y$ a, |9 V”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ Q, C" M1 W( V
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! C" s( a, K; P9 g
investigation." D6 L! g; f; K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
8 N+ |* j1 G& [7 B: D/ p; ufour-hour confession.. F. M7 T* E% i+ ~
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
- |- Q' b% B( D' ^3 |knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 c( k/ o$ ~5 I" O! Vknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
i' L' f2 c4 R”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% I( y9 v+ A; r0 R- x" I: J5 J
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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- K9 W4 d. S2 y$ D/ W( K) s; YIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ c) `' e; E- Z: u9 FOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
0 p+ @$ d' f$ Q% _2 HAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 O& n! F" K: o: V: f* `However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear K7 L/ P# k$ U' c
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