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r8 H! Y: G2 Q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* h; R% s/ i9 J) v% @" kWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
. Y7 d3 T3 Q) F9 F5 TNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# Y) Y* g# S' J. \- B4 j" }7 ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: O6 L# X2 ~, b# H" K- m6 M8 h
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* l6 }# W6 N# i: ]- z& \7 E
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, C" P) j" V& b K9 M; I! a”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
, K/ R. ~% }2 e2 p- {% N”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 A3 v/ T2 e K4 c# Q0 F
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be- R, S. L. t1 z1 [# p) g8 C5 }
pure luck.6 F3 m" [+ c$ U a+ w- W
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers4 [- q h$ i$ I
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- ?) @ w! T" W4 lThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 v. C1 n0 D; v, l
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall: ?0 [. o5 c, h6 X3 m
Street watchdogs.9 k( V, [9 H; [
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, p, S8 n f0 A( Y3 }4 P
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing5 G6 [' D- J# ]$ m% a
investigation.2 a$ y2 c7 [, |$ I5 u4 {- @
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. Z) x4 l* |5 U5 K% A5 J4 [
four-hour confession.8 z; S! ?" @3 F
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 ]8 J2 y e5 P: U0 Q. K
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with! A- D/ \ g) {5 A& @7 X5 Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
9 y1 R$ V/ M i& g4 y: N2 q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
) a0 D" a" V5 Z1 |6 B, V8 smake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& z( h, J3 {, L2 q) S4 J7 n% B) ein the moment.”
4 |% d& M) s0 S6 V. _: t" ~In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! W ]: t1 ~9 n0 d1 _
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS., X9 ?5 C2 G+ E: b/ s- Q. J2 H
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) N$ |! Z, l) o3 i6 cHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* K+ m, V. [; i. _
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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