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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' W3 Y5 S |3 p
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- e: p9 c8 c/ X! q$ ^4 J
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" e5 w+ b ?2 Z, n& S( r% q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' e2 a6 V' \) l$ n# E
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
( Q* l6 ]1 l7 {6 T& X+ y2 C Gbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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- d F6 ^* a- G4 K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
9 O# V* H( U3 R" _2 J, g”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& C( \- T! `" Y2 S" V, n3 z$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ N# v$ [. S$ w* V+ `' `( z8 w
pure luck.( P" e2 l, T9 ?1 c7 |9 `1 l
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: Z2 a1 e( T. b" f3 {Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
3 |# a( d6 H0 x! _2 ~9 P6 LThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin, T9 k4 A- d4 R W( G0 W I3 Z
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 A' |; F5 W$ n9 _3 u. EStreet watchdogs.
7 k7 o8 d1 O2 s6 O0 H% ]”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, U6 d( ?5 @1 o- v( l3 o/ @Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
6 v2 n) V0 z$ W& O8 u( Iinvestigation.
6 u \9 R- j. G3 _( ~When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: g) m" ^" ?5 ^0 v! ]$ ifour-hour confession. g. ]! u, A* F. _# m
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 x F" `$ t6 v/ _* h7 b4 @; W
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. o+ C1 d$ y7 K
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
; Y: b# x$ R4 t) Y& U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to D# I; l- z: i% U/ u
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught" n( S. Z" {% q, n8 \; _' F
in the moment.”: w4 p& d/ n8 E$ H6 j! j" U0 g0 z$ ~
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
+ g) I. ]+ Y, I0 }3 J4 GOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 h" G' {0 Q9 R$ [
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 _% X v, s: x& ?4 @However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& C' {" F9 a/ m! Q
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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