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; ^; B3 O7 \2 B& c$ X- V) N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
9 ]* j9 }5 j3 [. V. l( |$ ?8 }# HWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" N6 I3 l7 w/ w# H; `NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! l. v' v @) P1 ?+ Tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
6 f" Y; f7 c0 W* ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) S2 ? v& p0 Y& |
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 R* s& E! O( M3 n: J
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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.+ @* `0 V0 _& [$ t+ O% n3 k8 n
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( G# W5 j, U6 \0 y$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& ?6 |" U/ `5 i4 |: Cpure luck.
) |/ i& o2 U1 ~, f. g) }4 n”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers4 @/ q1 Y0 i' V" M' n' N
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”! ]; ~) J. b. W! J! C
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin) L3 y/ @# S0 `# O1 ~' s7 X
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
. `0 X5 ]% |9 C8 E8 EStreet watchdogs.
?( A6 O5 t6 P E6 [" e) p8 @0 M”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,8 M" C7 f& M" | z3 C% E6 Z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing- @( z ]" b7 H; g
investigation.) k$ y. `( i( t) _
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling j/ j! w5 F7 g. _/ {/ w; ~' G
four-hour confession.
* I' S" Q6 D% n( ]: h8 ?5 w" c+ A# eCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
" b8 h6 B; M" Dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" c; K: u+ f- m; b2 G7 K( d
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.2 ~2 m3 Z1 O% H' V
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 `0 M$ P+ A7 c
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* x. S$ e( Z! f% X
in the moment.”7 T8 Q( ^0 n' E; ~
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* Q8 d |$ U, {* Y4 m1 p
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. K. H4 r9 l! m; h
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 ?/ |4 k3 z& u9 THowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
0 ^) T( Q+ U* r% nthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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