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, [% I' d1 _- ~‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
2 \6 w* F# K0 z8 T4 J7 `4 JWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 H$ u5 i; s: r2 X* ^' ]
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 L7 f, a$ u. w, |" a
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
6 U# ?; e0 P1 j- }Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
4 T# S& a& I; \4 y2 m0 Sbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* M2 A) D% M7 {”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
/ p4 N& Z- V6 B: f) E”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: |: e9 r' p3 M
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be8 f( O/ C4 X; ~1 Y" ?
pure luck.+ l# r$ |1 P% _' W/ ?
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# s1 r, y @! p/ y7 XIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”" e% S4 }* } P
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ j; {. `& j' Z& f4 }
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 t' o7 y' R4 _8 ?7 lStreet watchdogs.: h+ F i" v3 b2 M$ A; w
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,) _& E" Q* E* E- f- Q. h
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 V: K# G; k1 p0 a; B+ i; M3 K
investigation.
" {+ U. g, `3 g- l+ \When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ q, V0 l4 _4 B6 m, e" |
four-hour confession." m5 {# [' w: Z. ]* g
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
/ W* U! c; x0 n+ Jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 g0 x9 I/ \" C o% @knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* X; `$ `# _4 V8 T3 t”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 _6 G& T7 h' Z3 X1 Jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
" B8 \3 K1 d9 ]" X, ?# D* F& T7 Fin the moment.”
& T+ ?+ x9 G. h$ g& a( L, l+ M* IIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
2 W; o2 A- r. v1 g$ W3 `Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
3 |: X0 i! K- r6 T& J) Z3 g0 b9 GAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ X# M5 `. f( q- e& N9 tHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 A2 X- R; i, d; W( M% v8 jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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