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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
, ^; T! V; U" `* s. J" eWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN* @( O4 f k8 ~5 C% w$ U+ a
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
: s B6 i& N& h2 \/ M9 _charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
; ^+ D: d) I( X4 I; sSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 f+ ]: {/ r9 I
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 i( S6 ]" P( ^& t* ~7 s3 T% R
28.
4 [# i& b2 a! j5 [% r+ X a3 J”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.- v7 `9 M+ l- B6 }* h% w9 r* z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
0 \& i9 K( Q1 S4 v$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) m R8 y8 I' n# _3 Z: lpure luck.
5 G1 }7 P9 ?9 L8 b6 r”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! y+ ]2 U* [; l1 `8 |# x& l3 ?: c7 n1 j" s
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”; f9 M4 y. I; B$ Q8 H
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
2 S2 y2 d: q( X) k! Hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
. x9 A u' A' w3 C$ @9 nStreet watchdogs.
8 X3 M5 `9 x- s% }2 g0 p9 b5 \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
_3 {/ M# B6 n5 z; }# U' ?Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. `7 w4 C1 b0 b" {0 q/ y
investigation.
& ~! c* {7 ~7 x3 cWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling0 e. b# a- M2 l* O6 [' |
four-hour confession.: ]: b; N& e' S+ B' @( G( s* @
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* p6 n9 \( o+ O
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
+ @' g' @0 |: u. F3 a1 R, pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.$ W" J- N: b1 _8 l4 p& i) U/ H
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
1 k- a# |5 Y$ qmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# ?2 @0 H. x; o. y/ V6 a& p4 \8 }
in the moment.”- x( R5 v5 v0 n3 k e
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- D2 A9 E& u! X3 S4 a3 B: p3 _( nOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.6 k/ m K8 s2 y1 N
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 S* u# @( J/ k
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ L* e4 V4 w1 G3 \& ~/ K7 x
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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