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6 @% E* g3 C% h# K* t Z6 r‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING! d" w% j ^% y3 S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
& J' r$ `9 o5 e$ WNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading1 z* P! W5 X5 r z' U9 }, _
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!; @ A+ e: f, d' H. b
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 V' [' A+ S: pbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January5 b o' }2 c7 t* a; {1 O
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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.
3 ^! q% L9 i9 \( W1 y- z”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: C: B/ `; ]8 q7 t! N
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( H; k+ I) y5 J# \: p" Q
pure luck.; C% g; p& }7 @- o: \: ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& ?6 b% A- Q! P" x! H. U2 \Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”$ r; F; i$ x% S& E
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
$ G1 a! |5 y7 L) ]made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall; m+ D0 i. s, |
Street watchdogs.
) n1 q, {) M7 E+ U”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
' ^+ a# i% I# e" Z/ PMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing& r! ], y b/ r3 Q L3 R; W
investigation.
+ ]. g& J! E8 _4 v+ }! j- ^. dWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
2 L8 u# Y* ]9 Z* u1 V* `four-hour confession.( Z4 K3 }( l ^4 u! Y' M
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% m( |. @* G, M: J! E. T
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 i- K. J/ k6 I+ C" |
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
# O( d. u1 i( o( [# B( R”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, y' o s- p( s4 s6 a( t# _1 O6 T' 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' m2 u) h1 y. e m5 O& b
in the moment.”
# j2 q4 Y% C$ DIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ E4 f/ k. d/ S; K
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.- r2 c6 ^: B4 i4 L- u, e6 a5 ]
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
* _- N Y8 Y/ m1 G& z2 R! v4 DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear) T: B1 @; Z0 j+ h# \3 _
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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