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# z0 _/ O( P. G4 x [2 y‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& c/ \/ L8 Y) |3 k
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN3 X8 C% ]+ E+ h2 R# |% B% t: c& U) i! @
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 C ]9 E, W7 Y$ E3 K; x
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ R1 n x8 w$ G k5 s- m& V5 cSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ u- L( t& i7 n) M$ e. q4 Ybizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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& t" [+ b/ K- t% e/ A”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
3 u$ Y0 v7 o) P# r7 W! Q”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over6 h% {; _: C% N8 A
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
: [" s `0 L) S" t3 ^/ z* N wpure luck.
4 u1 s3 I1 C" V" R9 Z, t6 F”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& C( l- O# N" s" TIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 p7 K J0 F8 M
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
$ ^& m8 X9 m; n& {' ~- x7 t; _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& f9 B! E0 f2 p2 U0 }5 b E
Street watchdogs.: c) F- f9 O. @
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,% |! ]9 k* H1 P# ?5 h
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# S; r8 O) G2 |, G+ _2 O$ V: Jinvestigation.! m0 _) G9 @( h+ |* k2 O
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- z- [8 |. I, a0 I2 c3 Z8 B" _9 yfour-hour confession.
/ ?- u: y1 \% Y" K7 B( W& h4 g' y `Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; T2 y4 l x+ O& e+ W
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; e2 e s/ [9 C) K: W2 q
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.4 u2 G0 \; X h2 m) U! R8 f+ H" b
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 @9 ~+ j }* v' _7 g
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ d1 a, t# M# C1 q" K" Z
in the moment.”
1 S/ q0 J2 l. @0 _) J2 DIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
8 V5 W) O5 u3 e9 m3 b$ q+ K5 |) xOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) f" i3 M2 W* ]( g* {( h4 |All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”7 Z4 f4 \7 p2 _) B& Y
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
+ ?' z+ @. r5 bthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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