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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING O- A2 t! T/ _" ^1 D
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 P9 ~! {. v# P8 K, C
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading7 y% B9 x5 ?0 d+ V. P! ]6 B
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!* D2 a% i$ `4 |; z$ s
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 N( D- p) A+ U+ Lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January* C) Z3 u* E# n
28.
% |3 b# [) @: u' }& E) g+ f+ C8 g”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
c. ^( s. n8 A; @% R”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 g+ _* n, J) O: k' W3 \
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
: D8 G5 C% R3 j* N" Xpure luck.
3 H7 A" H3 a5 _6 K% y; b/ P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) }. ?" Z8 x3 O
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 g0 n6 e: W6 S5 v
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin- L E8 n9 x6 n# \
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall; N* }. k' u! m- n% f/ }; M
Street watchdogs.7 ^. ]/ E. k" o" \ Q2 o# Y( o
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 y$ O: p% g& u3 [" bMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
% a9 }- t1 i+ x% _$ S. D0 X8 ^0 Sinvestigation.7 p8 X8 D: R" N7 S! @; e7 J
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
, J. W$ m* y0 y& @3 g& Bfour-hour confession.
. g; m8 Y" j: h; B% oCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
7 k- z& v& I5 D; D8 u) ]% |knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 O8 s) B5 ]" X) m! P( F7 nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
# s3 M( W& J7 O5 G# J4 r3 `4 ?”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- k% y3 C$ b( @: h3 d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 g8 a' }6 Q, F$ @# K$ l
in the moment.”0 c/ p' c* `) Q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! L5 c% M+ m( t
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.+ I% i1 v2 \* N' s$ w0 |
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- S1 t. ^$ W; G- a2 L6 \6 {
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# y+ b2 }3 S' |the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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