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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf7 Y9 \6 ?' h0 Z$ c7 ?1 ]$ G- w. D- S
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
3 \: x" K, r& k# hWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 b! O$ z+ x4 d/ U) v
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading) m, [9 m8 b1 e8 D
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! F$ y+ B+ V6 M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ L# e& U5 g9 o8 E2 f2 Z xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January! @9 ]5 {+ w$ w3 Y
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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.
' m, \3 _( \* C”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& G3 x4 V2 O; r2 `
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ i" }. z4 }! I/ ~
pure luck.
+ S: B }& y# f; a: Z/ N7 ^, V”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# Y' {' c5 {, ?4 @& i+ zIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”3 ]- P5 e) i+ {- e6 G( N3 G
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" N8 o( z$ j* Z3 P' imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 h$ p- Z% y3 d; U) n
Street watchdogs." s4 @! Q d: S7 o+ m8 g+ U
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, H. M( l1 q v- j) J u" ^$ `3 gMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 ?; q! p+ l: n2 A9 ~6 Q" |8 g
investigation.$ b# l: [2 t; Y
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling* i4 u. a, n: d q% S' C" R
four-hour confession.
2 W& s) R9 S# d( w0 xCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) i, t- n7 V2 T' x% |7 H0 C% ]8 y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( ?) ?$ }- {+ m1 w6 nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ d0 m8 J* B; b* N/ A”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 y# ^3 z/ g/ pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught7 d" d+ T+ q2 y/ x4 [6 ]
in the moment.”# @( V* D$ L$ _) v' R
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of, x4 v! z+ z, u- s/ A! x7 q
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 d* Y; d+ X" o, J3 H/ P: DAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) T; L2 [7 g9 E2 X6 q7 i) JHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
. M( ^/ Y- l$ L. o/ x. J0 Y% f3 [the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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