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4 P! H) q$ W4 F/ F' x$ Q V: H. g‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING1 r# A3 s: r# c! A
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ ~. x6 S4 y. ?6 fNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 y0 z: ~. G9 p! i$ b: i$ ]
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
5 L7 Z/ B2 c' M1 p; qSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ j" b/ _9 T- _9 o5 _bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January$ D4 E& s2 Y r
28.
. F$ b" V* L! J# y. }8 `0 f/ }- ?”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
- E, M- C8 k+ v" V”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
3 \3 |5 K7 \4 q; U- Q# f$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be6 f1 Q% l5 W6 B7 c1 D
pure luck.1 {! s8 C$ r% M+ e; n$ t' ^
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 N* O5 l! b# j6 N" c
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( W% E" y" q# b4 G a' X* RThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
' H* N D3 {! s# _, L/ F& Jmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# F$ i$ G3 |9 z( A# c! P$ x# bStreet watchdogs.5 A, {; R" I* _
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
2 T% @# F2 c3 T6 Y; i, ?) H0 h0 b _Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ B$ H" E2 H0 A2 B- c; V- @
investigation.' V- ~4 G7 v6 r% n- g( g% J) X
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ R7 A' B3 d& f" r, U' `/ Tfour-hour confession.
6 G7 G( G. R, W5 @% gCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% y2 Z& E3 G2 z6 z* R$ T) I; ^
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 W- w% N9 P1 G- Z: Z _knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) I7 Q# Y+ V. @( c, @! h”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 G1 n& C4 c6 I" imake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught6 H- L0 n1 s; w' g
in the moment.”
4 A2 o( p1 I8 S2 Q# V; ]In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* i% Z+ ]7 s+ Y2 }( [Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! Q0 p, Y' h9 w" W" n' {All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ E& [5 H' m! bHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& P8 m |4 G8 X- U+ Q* N! y/ p, j
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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