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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
# J/ r: d6 Z/ G3 l. E" YWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ X7 G* ?; y f* C* i/ ]
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 a& _, o, N7 [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" I2 A! Q; O7 P/ A7 n( |9 G L# o
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) O7 Y3 m! a: e$ e
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January U1 C: n3 \5 P
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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.- k$ m1 @& [: A
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* E# `3 Z4 _/ W7 G8 k
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be7 a1 u1 \3 g: B0 ]' N9 a' a
pure luck.+ } o' M! N% c8 F+ `9 S; S
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 S2 p: s+ \& W* `9 l
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
9 J4 s$ j+ G+ D8 I0 B: TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
; H% {2 ~1 u' P$ K/ W% tmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
! P0 w, O3 s x! P: ?1 Y4 q9 t% U, CStreet watchdogs.: h! x8 X" k) m. K+ O; r: n M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,, s% `6 x* [0 Q3 C) w, i
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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+ @0 m5 G7 O, |& ~; W9 i* gWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- A H7 W' A* m& a7 B- p. J) h) i
four-hour confession.
" D$ Q: F. r* {/ ?Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
+ w" M! r8 F' y& v/ Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
9 |0 A# R9 h% B2 F% q- ^% ?6 c+ Nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) U6 j. r* [5 \6 N) ^0 U2 Y
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' G1 H0 ` q3 q2 y& ]$ l8 U4 W8 c
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught: x4 A! g# ^# E+ m9 U
in the moment.”( y5 Q8 c" `$ F+ d- ~# @
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% [- v9 K6 E |+ M- qOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.' F" a7 J- Y2 F, P8 H5 n
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* Y2 x8 R3 k7 Q! b
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* K! \) v S- C. X# Lthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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