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% U1 c5 A0 {# r4 K( D u& R# ?‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING2 W L) a, ^) d6 g( N
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' M+ o& I9 ^, A& @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading/ J# }" u+ ^- Z2 b
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!, b: n/ ]* q+ m1 F# I
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
- M) n9 ` ?3 t& C" x3 Hbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- G6 F; y$ N0 B/ V3 F& B3 D! y* y# l
28.
6 L" u# E% T. H& k# H i”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
& g# i3 c( \4 o" m5 y”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: W2 |9 q7 t" K' y
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& R6 F% X% x/ jpure luck.
/ _3 [. A& o/ t* X$ {* z”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers @$ V' s1 a: N4 Q+ O, V
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
0 k) x# n- T- C4 S5 `The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! ~& N1 x8 f L9 vmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 V# L2 \$ r# x, K4 c- G: X* L
Street watchdogs.
! B- F4 C" O6 h- V* O”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,9 c$ s% N; `! z; C2 s1 K0 e2 X
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing, f! x. V, v1 d% k% p: W6 g& ~& h
investigation.
& |$ |0 x6 l7 a, YWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" I9 f$ Z1 @# S& W9 x9 b1 g/ vfour-hour confession.
7 L3 I' J! q& t aCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
) a- _2 B$ Q7 B' K' g1 fknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 t, e* ]( q: y5 @0 R1 Fknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' R, ?' W( V6 r. L7 z/ p. D `5 j% b
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
( s# Q& ^& C+ W4 [make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught5 ?1 i$ p: t& |0 V; Y9 k# Q9 o6 J9 ~
in the moment.”7 W8 {2 U( E0 \) z" b! J) \* e& k
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 I1 j: ]8 O+ I1 @' x% ^Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.) T2 C7 T1 x5 ~) o( D
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- J1 Q; c8 y, T* x/ NHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 V9 j5 e V: E( p0 l" s
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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