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. L$ C) [2 c6 r5 B% H; [‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ ~) o# Y& j! I" y* E: bWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% H' k( V% [4 m: E1 X
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
7 @' \7 h& A+ g% Y! pcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# ]6 F) I. x0 G$ g$ l: l
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 N. Q9 a0 Y$ H
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January: E* C' Z+ P, |
28.
" U- t+ T9 D1 T# Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider. n& g3 r+ k6 D- o C" S
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* P: n9 [* V J4 \4 U$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 Y" H- e" ~6 u9 Q: {+ {pure luck.
5 n# U9 t5 p( J0 s1 b; W0 j# I9 l”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
. _7 w- E) j7 |+ y7 }! BIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( f0 X1 r8 N; c) Z2 g" a3 _5 l2 CThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 d. ~! J8 T8 N, G# Q% ~) \
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
' @9 }$ d8 ], J. X j% PStreet watchdogs.
5 c h( D0 s, `5 g”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,# X# M3 l ~2 A! \2 G' I
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# R- J" w4 F" w; f0 d9 R1 p) l; A
investigation.
+ X5 B% f9 H- H# |' }# tWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' i) n) O) k2 W4 H$ s4 u5 Q# rfour-hour confession.
. s1 u6 T0 y" D+ H/ rCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
' b" W* }* _% R2 ]; Lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
+ S: \5 Q; W, ], A! ]2 ~/ Z) wknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 P% g6 [' ?( S7 N. B”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to5 r( `( Z# W0 ^* j. G3 ^- x" a
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- d; S7 v, T0 D
in the moment.”# [9 G x6 \) U% k, {
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 y) j; T& p6 X E
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ H3 _5 v! Q8 w+ V
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
& {8 u. E4 l% p$ p2 eHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear- ?* T% }- a! I# l0 h
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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