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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING7 L/ {* O( K( ?* X
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
* ^! H- A; i; N- wNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
: P2 Y% c& q! F4 zcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* w, v0 |) w1 I- C4 vSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
U2 g1 f; x3 q- D' ~9 i2 sbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.
% l7 O9 H8 z/ B b0 v/ {3 q! v”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, }. v' y4 s; Q& H6 B9 X2 |
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 Y: X f0 w$ l% [$ {* W
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
, J- {9 H5 \5 c% k! VThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 l% g4 h$ z5 v/ y5 Z5 S9 i lmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
% T7 T" u/ S" c1 @+ `Street watchdogs.
2 `8 b$ B2 t F" s" x9 o B”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
1 C0 A0 O. Z2 y" i; K. \9 @8 ?$ wMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' p7 ]8 r9 h& n6 ^1 H5 o! F
investigation.5 A: J8 J$ Q' P$ b8 C0 w! o. V
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$ \# e, x4 d; W% l* q; p' }( [
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with4 v) x& t! \7 H. |9 `, k
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
+ r7 U2 K( p+ J+ V# ?5 X) z# [$ e! O”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
8 X& j" h4 u% P5 j3 Z+ D% ^' xmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
5 S# L( q8 B2 x% y$ b; O+ k, O3 j; Gin the moment.”
8 J. F! s% o D9 s, C+ ~4 EIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- m' T* k. x, {Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: A2 N. N# k' B; r+ T8 }3 }All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) H. k U$ ~; q; [- D
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 w5 g* [. Z1 d* B
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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