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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 `3 l5 U1 W b" Z+ D$ SWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN8 E `3 |+ a$ s, p! J! t
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading, y+ ]# K2 u2 g4 I2 l" G1 G
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!7 C7 ?! b2 Y% }6 K
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the% {# w& c$ W5 B2 F5 T8 u$ Z
bizarre 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. V: B9 ?6 m; R" R: a# ]2 H
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
. {$ R r& _* i# v$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! J! @. B! Z( ]4 e# G# X
pure luck.4 A% ^1 `# j. D2 s: ]9 G1 v
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 V g5 f0 S! H5 |made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall. V" B* C' ? s* p
Street watchdogs.$ B) p: |; t+ o- q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ b% q2 r8 h( T% ^% w
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 J2 {% W% H# \( r
investigation.
: l0 l* c* P: c4 WWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling6 g9 O. }9 A5 E* m
four-hour confession.
; n) g1 O' ]% U& v% f1 aCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
" ?% w% M2 x! T( w# O# t1 F# |knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
9 Q/ @8 J# x( M ^. K1 C, z: Aknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 O, w: ]; g, C”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to: R2 ]9 \- t4 y G* n- e. A+ E+ B
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
/ m' b( e4 g/ Q7 O' f i, j& T9 O xin the moment.”
) F* M# q) |4 U ?( C% z6 CIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
8 k, U( ~& H# q i1 A [. G9 S! WOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
g; ?. L& R2 P) U# JAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ R i% P1 h$ I- i: zHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear- Y) B; L7 e8 e4 p% K
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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