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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf" U5 W( p/ c7 ~6 B8 T; R3 N
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 s# |: P) `9 J8 g' M
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
. o, x# p5 s& i1 xNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading- v1 i7 {+ `! _# r9 W: D# Z- e
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' W; q( e; u8 |% f5 Z# c1 B: ?
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' Q- N. z. J( L C4 z9 R/ w# E5 c
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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8 Y/ @9 z- H4 i; f ^- ^: A, K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.5 \& r U, l* G- B6 S& J0 F& X
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- k7 e: h1 p D* h$ J, b) v0 S3 X( `$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 l2 u( [( k# j5 P3 y" [3 B6 g1 D
pure luck.
0 f4 @5 I! @- ?% D6 [' e: l, n) l/ R( `”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 C/ V) ? i4 Omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall3 {/ {+ W Y! x2 O
Street watchdogs.. f4 U* u/ X" n% Q i, [: t- Y/ Y
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; d& s% {, y3 \% t! U
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ |% L2 p8 Q* I4 T/ p# R- f
investigation.: A) s3 l4 N4 w* b1 Z( {
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
; s i+ z1 Y# c2 D! w9 Sfour-hour confession.
9 `$ F: T' ^3 fCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
) E# |0 T3 ^) Y7 S* ], Jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* H) k* h1 o5 I: H
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) O; g F* n, n1 E) \8 i
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 t0 b; J9 ?9 f1 b/ {
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) W9 b; J, [. z
in the moment.”$ y3 z; R. o F, @
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of7 A; z4 U2 }. u! T0 C2 x/ B% t; r
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ D; W* o. t9 {% nAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 R& w2 r0 u* _However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear0 C* z% F i) b/ f( R7 _
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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