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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
+ C) } Q( u# n$ @Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
H; {- V/ g# Q: q$ e) h( JNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 m7 i+ `# a# n0 S
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!) c, k8 p2 h8 U9 B6 d& P9 e
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the" d0 G; A* r% \ k
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.
8 Z. g- B7 w3 ?0 i8 b$ p& u”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; v8 e) S4 } ~, }/ k# L
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers0 E# i1 W1 A: q7 D
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& n ~! d+ C% Z1 o% EThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! t8 f1 j( Y, r1 y: U5 `made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 t6 ]7 ~7 j H! ~( _
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 E B; t" f [. M8 L& q7 v* G
investigation.
% E8 N) q+ h7 @& p/ ~7 c' |When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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& u. I% t+ i. p; \Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
# w# ?" |' n/ a! lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" ~ M3 g. o8 x' ?; t4 }' U( Jknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 D) j+ Q8 z+ `! A$ L
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to6 b1 H3 Q L4 Q; l4 G, e, 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
: G% y# B* {; t. win the moment.”6 J* P9 X' ^% K$ u4 K( O
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 ~& }7 L- |+ n# I; S$ ?1 d
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' m8 U- b& y- I, U8 T- |5 E! y- z# \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& z/ K/ T: N: P' O3 J$ m
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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