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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf! F$ o: `4 w8 v8 l% ~; Y
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING) m7 Q$ I7 P( \# ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% p2 K- D$ X0 jNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 v( N- i+ H. f- O
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!) N5 V) Q: y$ w: I
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the1 x4 T1 Y& \! ]- {2 S6 m
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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. W( g% c: f1 M: `+ l! Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.( ]1 @" f7 v9 [
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
D2 l# r4 X( s3 ]+ ]/ I5 o$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! B- t+ e4 I% _3 p1 Y1 P' rpure luck.
0 X N. F" Y. j”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers0 Z" e, T) k, {4 `3 C$ o. Y/ b
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”7 q' F \9 a9 K% o( g2 k0 \
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin! G" v( F ~0 s. C& Z
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
J D1 b' y/ s2 P$ j5 lStreet watchdogs.
, {* v- n7 a- F0 A”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 e' N2 S9 j7 k, b4 O8 p, H
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
% B( Z" [% e# t/ _, T5 O E. Xinvestigation. D; K/ L* z& U! Q6 n. r0 t5 @/ E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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1 ?# Y$ P, {$ |Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ n# K5 F! E1 |, T5 r
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ r! g7 J+ H% h3 K& f4 [! B0 Yknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.! U( F. E% B9 c; C( q
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
" D) {( R$ s* S Lmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! Q& E5 _9 @. k% b: Zin the moment.”- F1 O6 _0 Z! Y8 d3 v# `
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: J; ~6 v% ?7 N% i# ?) O7 I7 Y
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
G, F1 w1 Y# P5 d" t9 N+ vAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
& r8 l' S/ M' x* p2 rHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear- k9 L0 H% f& U5 I# U9 B( j
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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