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$ C* [/ `& Z$ b- J B1 B4 F* Q. v‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
( j) Q# ]' r; E+ s% VWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN. H% F# u% \% |" Z
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
( m( u8 {, w6 q8 b! Hcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! `$ R5 k I# [7 s
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 P7 t; k3 s( F2 y# g
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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! a' V. V, G5 M& Q, `/ ?”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
8 A4 J! q k8 k! g8 W”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! N- F9 }0 I1 L. @! {1 k. Z
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be; W% A0 a" M' V/ a6 d: N* _) l
pure luck.
5 }& X4 b# R: [" n# M”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers4 p, r1 B& Z6 z5 } C
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”, l9 _1 f& B. M$ Y2 n5 R
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
}7 ~" k! c- `, N+ r4 K' xmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
% f, R9 ]& ?, R% p1 ?/ LStreet watchdogs.- G6 H' ?5 h2 H- v; k
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 B; r! v7 ]: {9 g! QMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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* \) i) H1 q" k/ {( v' D3 WWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling" I9 s" Y, n9 e) }2 F4 f4 k
four-hour confession./ O) x: Y1 k4 _$ r
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ B7 E8 S* {- ?3 F. `
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; } c5 K+ W! S) T
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! Q% v# y. J7 _6 D k”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
9 w3 Q* Z8 y) H+ M( Vmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 X s# d+ ?7 F" q4 X# ]* xin the moment.”6 R5 Y& ?9 ~+ S% i. T: E. r
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
/ y3 A1 U) m y" [6 COsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) `% V' E6 t' T+ \ ]. P7 [( F7 b) PAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 X- z* h% ^% O% g
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear% y5 h: d8 X: X2 a6 z7 W0 J
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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