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7 w" c+ h! |. p9 i& J, Z% h5 c i, @‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 M5 c5 c7 d4 Y) {
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' x0 m! x/ L1 ?9 zNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
5 X! f8 b, S" Q! |- l) scharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, q) s( P2 ^8 r8 |- p' B" p0 q* GSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
) `! R! W$ I: d/ H* N% B9 Cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. U, l% x( i8 Y2 z: v4 m
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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.
% A" N* A: f; W' e”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& ^, S: a9 d3 z6 r$ h" a2 E6 f6 n" L4 w" ]
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( \& U4 W- [" g' j; w' K9 a
pure luck.
# Y, [' d, I$ @7 O% q6 Q: B”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 ?! V8 N1 Z; }Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 ^+ [) y& }: e& b9 d; |The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 O6 {% P8 i6 \, |
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 h- W6 l8 i1 R: V7 b( M+ I kStreet watchdogs.; k) C% m* n$ l4 n" K
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 i, {" c) }4 X3 z7 U q' C& ZMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' O3 G' g% x0 t* Q# i$ u
investigation.- s Y& P8 B5 S ~ I
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, ^5 s8 A0 M1 x: _knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* q7 ?* W% y. s( F
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
. f% ^0 m: Q, e( h) }* o" ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to" I, V8 c; z3 w% q: s: a0 B
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- L/ L( n* M( V" I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ D; S( Y% j' z+ t }, HAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
" k' g4 b5 V5 a, @! e: P2 WHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* p% W- n; j/ H9 X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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