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+ L- {6 h* A( k& q, D4 P: c‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: x! x; n( H3 s% I& K
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: q( ~7 Y9 }3 W3 N# kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! V4 E/ |6 ~$ D# g- G3 k# [5 _, ]charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 @. r* e3 r% h! l
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 K* U! w3 X( C8 f: g7 |& }! qbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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$ G' `' z3 e% N0 v; t”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.3 N6 ~/ e8 }: Z# P% k" T
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: Y1 t7 m2 K3 r6 |4 H% J$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
1 U$ A2 @) g% b8 M# m2 hpure luck., @" }0 m' H/ ?' o) I. o
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# H9 T$ ~* O% f' }; ?Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
* [( |- M+ k) R( A* v9 k/ N {The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
& L- n( D9 U4 x7 kmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 @/ R/ k0 f3 ?: C4 V8 a1 M$ ?
Street watchdogs.
7 X# S0 i" C. x# f2 C) @" m! j2 R4 |0 M”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, g) c7 o- D3 R4 gMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, j$ G. n9 u6 R' t d( \* }) U0 Rinvestigation.+ `0 E% ]* n7 |7 Y1 u2 S, f
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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/ t! [1 D f" L: D# TCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 f6 }. w/ x1 d( ~3 T7 F3 B
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with4 r& w/ h' Z9 G O" Z( U! P
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) x' s. o' v) g4 G1 u- {& M
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( w1 l' u8 Y# I- 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' d" H% _! E+ L" P4 u1 w4 g9 f
in the moment.”
% N- S) e# R9 S) f1 p* Q* A" dIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 [2 v- C# Y# m6 P# C+ ~/ R# n( YOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 V9 B9 u- Z/ l( J9 g8 M
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 x1 e- ]0 s) r0 F+ ]$ c% {7 N* d
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear% M6 z! J# |0 L- w2 }
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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