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# X( s) L+ K$ D) h; [, F: _‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* W7 U# c* ~' o; B3 }2 q4 WWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 H5 \/ D+ }+ N6 q, ^) x4 g
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
9 U9 j( ^5 o0 p- W2 echarges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!* W2 c0 k4 o% |" Z. {
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
! o$ x. t8 Z" j7 i7 j' u- ^. hbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 f% d3 W1 I0 Q! o”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.7 `/ Z6 \. j7 s1 I* P& Q' `. t
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over' l5 P* N5 U2 x( k2 p: s
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be8 J# u8 L$ Y/ Z3 |5 w# f! r
pure luck.
5 P" p* L; H9 ^4 Z+ D”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
; K6 V/ ^% j3 s, Y$ OIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
9 R3 K' |! c3 S! eThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 F6 x8 E) c; [* z z) G) {
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" U% c1 H6 g f5 \, ^5 i. @: S7 L* jStreet watchdogs.
4 e" n; {/ p u”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 Z% I$ \& ]( {/ I, l, KMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing( H. q. S* j' j; u& R2 S
investigation.2 B. p) W d3 B9 h5 Y! {
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. k, e" ]* J' p- S- |' L1 N( Y- p, xfour-hour confession.
' z# }5 a1 b) f3 }) L S# BCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% G' b( c8 @2 o: z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 E x' y# R: c1 L H
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ J& d& R" T% `5 c6 C”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) g, X5 @% U+ K
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
- ^1 _1 d9 G" Hin the moment.”: Q% X( ?$ f% \5 `0 T+ U
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! z: W: }9 Q$ j2 u
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.6 X# U" q) P2 c8 f: h0 V
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& A1 m. X( a3 N4 u( ?* g! ]
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear. K1 c7 A9 [7 b3 X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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