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- z7 s# e; M7 b‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING n; u/ V/ l3 E3 ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
, m6 G& J2 Z9 J7 B$ DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
/ m$ l9 J4 Y+ Ncharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!& g& ~8 G/ N3 q
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
6 L1 B2 m' s: L3 W6 {bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January* i' r* H9 F H2 E. C: Y& I
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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.+ s; k* b- A7 K2 P' j6 v
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* D6 H1 z( Y& q
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be: F0 T; i, r/ m! N/ o$ C. ]
pure luck." k @/ v% _4 x2 q5 `6 u% p* E& 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) D3 I$ q% Q" C4 d" F
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 e. [6 z$ {0 o! y% i, |5 ?The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 J. u8 E* m5 X9 w6 z3 Q2 U! v. |
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 S! Q" g' ]; [+ Q7 `, T; p+ m
Street watchdogs.& `# r+ T3 @% _' w; D; K7 ?
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,' A/ f& b/ r3 c$ b2 X0 X4 F
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing/ ]" d( Q% L6 c) j5 N5 {; s% Z
investigation.
v. o$ c1 I8 E/ E: h0 ?When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling: r3 e: }& |2 R
four-hour confession.
6 y/ u! U# @$ h+ {( N9 f9 Z, DCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ T; {8 v4 S: X: s
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 _9 y) v& O7 ?/ X5 qknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune. J6 f6 q8 W' \+ h# b! O. ^9 a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 R8 e* f- L7 p8 t& v& N
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
( I i2 l r2 u0 w$ f7 Z5 gin the moment.”
! k0 J4 K7 p9 ^3 Z$ X3 }( ^, r! _6 s+ D* mIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 z9 Y) b! K5 T( p, k4 A, [ N
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.) g; R4 c& [& E4 c
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
, Q; Q1 K3 M( L2 z" X8 ZHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 @+ K) R6 W4 C( F8 M2 O; ]
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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