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1 b) i% G* ~2 l9 z0 _ d3 I‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' a) a+ m0 h' V- g1 w3 P
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' q G H+ c! t1 [# N3 T- ZNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 i7 i6 y6 i5 ^, Z4 T1 Gcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
0 i5 Y2 Y2 a( M$ o9 wSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* E- D) M) Q* b1 {
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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5 K) a2 `$ o8 _$ k7 D( Q; e6 V/ y% }”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.5 o5 ~# l1 O+ \2 `2 o
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
7 c. n# p/ B& m! A: s! I- W$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& x! ^- U. b y) Q0 \* Opure luck.
1 ~1 J4 g' Q# X' |/ k”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers; G$ j0 r e; D9 A. O
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. [' O9 o! c* k0 d& P
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
& |) w9 J* \6 |6 Z" O! vmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall3 n. w/ }6 O) n$ I8 l( L" r: R) s
Street watchdogs.
1 ?" I7 u2 a* o- b& n2 J, Q) h8 v”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# J2 y" I; X- ]2 }7 t+ UMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, Z4 D1 q, }6 z+ W5 {3 S2 y- einvestigation.3 H" Y" A$ R2 \/ n
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. E- B; y5 e7 Q
four-hour confession.
8 A( h% v6 S7 E7 }- fCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
) H& i9 Z% D) ?. K% W5 F3 ~/ Pknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" v: o' ], P9 O* p6 K$ H/ Y b
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 v: s" B6 ~! a8 {; P2 J" p8 N; j
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to/ y f7 ~& X# l7 z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 V& \% }# z' N) i5 a$ c) u
in the moment.”
) _# ^- p5 x& U4 R# m# UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
, P, M6 W% Q4 u8 EOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
2 e. q: k6 s, t# \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* [& J2 ]; }! b
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear! t6 W: f" r0 j0 E& Z5 V
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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