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/ Y$ W% Y0 g! C. M9 Z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
M0 V1 `0 q6 L/ k7 f% @8 C: _3 vWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; o6 g; ^2 @4 b# U R" b
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ t) w: O7 |. x4 ~charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& g o/ A9 \+ @* ~' OSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) e: N: t) H: N9 L/ G( o0 |5 U
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, z3 m+ T( W3 ]- Z”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
* H1 P9 Y( t6 m8 ?* k& [5 ]”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
, P7 W9 Y* @8 r8 G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
5 i2 A Z& |! s( y* S6 P5 l" I! Y" U* dpure luck.
$ ?4 A8 l0 x% d$ 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
1 n' e& u% R9 \. aIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”& W. u% i' c i! N3 B: X, v* j
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 @$ G6 L2 ~- A# I. A& _7 y
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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5 O5 B0 r5 c% s7 h4 F" S _0 d”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 y9 G. y( L6 N8 x# n9 o
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, r- _& Q; W# _! q A& Hinvestigation.
4 c1 }2 N5 J/ WWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' o8 w% |* l% y" |four-hour confession.9 H8 c& C& c1 g5 P+ k
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( R! B/ O9 g7 t& S9 O9 }( A ^knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
) D0 } o) u( y5 a$ Uknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 S! ^' \: ?; u. \$ k& f4 l2 R”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
# ^. ^; _* M+ q4 N# `2 tmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
) S2 z7 x; h$ c* ^* W. h, |/ win the moment.”
4 x$ v; {8 t' j8 fIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; J1 D7 s) T; Z: \: x9 \
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 E) m* [9 ]. M! e0 Z% @7 qAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- c4 H' u7 j6 i% c# v
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* k6 p* s$ z" W5 V
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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