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j3 j9 S# G/ J6 W. L" t2 P‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* x: r/ _6 m) E6 Y x4 g) U) B1 Z
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 K2 m1 w2 D& _" \NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 }' s" p" n, n- }. S: O
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!( J9 n4 C* x3 Q5 A
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the1 \$ U+ D' ~' F: p: Q! g; p/ O$ L# c
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January7 U# ^8 g( E' }$ [! k! L% T
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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.
1 X2 @& R$ H/ v) Z& c7 w9 W/ h”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& _; t1 u: V: \5 Y$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 b' A. z0 @& l. v; i. x
pure luck.
# }/ \" C$ ^' j9 W! D$ |% H% s”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
" r, v' c. V, ]4 b1 W/ @. OIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 J4 i. V6 P/ |4 \* X- HThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 P0 M: M8 Z _/ ]: `- k3 I
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
5 v/ q7 v/ i% h; HStreet watchdogs./ U# T3 k9 b3 \
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,( i& q- d2 _3 J4 x9 h( v1 l
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 h2 a) {- S: D+ [6 g1 Z$ m
investigation.3 w, m2 ~4 _( K9 [: I; Y
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ i" f! V4 z' t
four-hour confession.
8 u* X" W6 V- s& r% L! P4 tCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 ] n: }4 {, r6 _
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 l: M; i8 Z$ ~knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) u- L) j n0 s" ~# M* T' B7 s2 O/ q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( ~( }# i5 a( b& I
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught! g8 v, B, ?- J3 G$ m
in the moment.”
# E# K. _9 g7 i v j& c/ ?In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* g5 W' Y) ?5 _2 h, l/ MOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" v* ~, Q u8 J6 i' Z4 \2 hAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 o0 ^6 X- ?( Q5 F6 }
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear: e1 J3 s( H9 e! O, k9 w. e
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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