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. g! ^; B; r( s3 L& j- W7 I‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
9 q; E3 ?" x+ R+ cWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
6 N6 A: x, ^# o- p, z) F3 ~NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading* n/ k/ K. z1 K/ T6 }9 E
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!6 R: \. ^* [; ` ^) w: X
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
) G5 N& H* F4 `7 @' Abizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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4 d. l K, [5 M8 Z( A”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
% n/ b! A( E+ f) X9 g D”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; Z6 L9 N ?. K& b
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
/ P' @+ E i, Wpure luck.
" _8 A' G+ u5 o: y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
- M- ~5 S7 p( v& c4 v# m* V5 DIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.” |1 R8 W0 s7 m2 Q
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 S$ G1 Y. S! W& @9 A6 [: t" i
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall! k. d/ H8 W" p, ?: v9 b( ]
Street watchdogs.1 B% n% M: r. i& B8 t- ?
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( M7 t" n: M0 e, CMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 c" W. j- `" }7 p" Jinvestigation.
. f1 O, @9 \; m1 |When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling9 u1 h1 K0 Y9 T* h9 G- [ m
four-hour confession.
5 g* d. Q/ C% Y. X, I1 T6 rCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! @9 ~' C7 n1 F# `( d
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
8 q6 i; \+ C/ J! W- ~) zknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 u( [- M# Q- f) W2 H
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! M9 V4 e3 h5 d2 S% C# cmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& o) P& S) b: L! _# K. vin the moment.”
& A' J5 [* ?, O) b/ @9 lIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
( }7 d' J" @* v3 Q( \6 {8 I$ \Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.4 H, X, D; Y, _( z
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”. n7 l9 }2 t9 f M" n+ G
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
/ i& k# c% d1 Tthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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