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' x9 J \% g/ w‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* ?- U% z9 U y5 Z! D1 LWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" N0 U1 H. u' m& H7 |1 v' J$ wNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading* W: E/ v$ D' `$ w. M
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!3 ?* H# M% z7 m! p9 \- Z6 q8 k- q# E
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" p. H7 j1 N) W- n, L! a0 cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 Z, @( U& E$ a0 p% d7 [
28.
; S( v, G8 |2 Y: t”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
9 y( D5 [( R( [% R4 g! K- r8 I0 W”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over0 M7 }/ O8 O9 i5 r l# D( V D- l
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' @: \* S: |5 p6 M8 A* {
pure luck.
, V U% S5 |2 P- g( Z2 C1 B" h& d6 J3 U”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
5 d- T# U. T7 P. g8 V' v9 qIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”! l& H% j# G& k f! g
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 y# M6 s0 N6 c: j# vmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall J, f4 x) ~: C! v
Street watchdogs.
! h' Z& N% B. |”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,0 X& {/ z; M. k* E
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
" L8 M* o. @0 ^( d+ binvestigation.
* [2 V& r) k- E9 {When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 _5 H( ~6 s6 @6 d& Y8 afour-hour confession.
; m R3 W$ C+ [8 z, X( xCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common2 q S/ v0 b1 I
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: w: b4 o, S) w9 Z M1 _
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.( u9 H) [5 b( H! S7 r
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
% V8 F9 x) ] h9 R) F* I' Xmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# F1 `. @; R! ?, b Z# Z! d- Y
in the moment.”- q3 B1 k# Z9 T
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- g' ^6 m* `3 _7 oOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
- t3 I0 n2 c X A# tAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”" B! e1 V& B1 m* h! p6 ]- x
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% p# Y2 R! r2 kthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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