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6 w, [4 i( \, h$ r‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 c! H0 l" E2 i' g# N A2 g0 h3 e
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 w$ ^* ]( C6 n2 DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading& a0 ? ?5 {0 _" K
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 d6 Y$ g* g" I* J* y7 C
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 w+ R. l0 @" ]/ V8 C* h
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# b/ H# K5 C' S/ i”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider., U; P$ O! \2 o" u9 M2 z$ [8 z1 Y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# h; l8 p6 k- k7 v f
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) h! S3 @5 u- l2 K$ }' S) Z* A/ W5 a, ppure luck.
! G9 W: ]' C5 f; F- U8 D”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
g9 v+ E' G3 D* X5 WIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 W3 [- `4 [% }3 q, QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 {9 y; Q2 u) Z% t' P% a
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall# I$ R8 b$ f9 O4 H: g j
Street watchdogs.8 A9 k N. U2 n* ]1 q, ]& V: W
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," D0 n0 D; o- }8 ]
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 R8 F9 T3 _$ H, K M# x
investigation.4 G, l& e: L4 {8 N0 e. G- W
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling/ ^% Z8 g, g% A4 E* ]& j) `% \1 L
four-hour confession.& N" b6 H# U) H7 B
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ j- D8 d4 S, l m2 Z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with% a$ A+ H4 `- F9 l0 r# S
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
2 B# c9 G6 n( U- O/ B! A2 @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; c" P% m2 c* h4 H# s0 z3 G- b) Q
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
, S0 I3 f6 n9 M, R v) Ein the moment.”
) w% `' x! ^7 A$ H6 O3 l. P4 c5 T2 EIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ K: K- C' R( |1 |: N! s" ^4 k; @
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# K. f, e: ~0 \6 i* Z
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ l! W$ i4 K1 E$ _7 B+ a6 M% }! `However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* q0 b0 f' N; ^" H9 q" Pthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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