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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# ?, R. R t. W4 V) x' W
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ P$ T8 S. X4 c. i% x/ C
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
: c1 Z2 J9 C8 r( u- Scharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- o/ I$ K( M* a G! n$ C: P q* |" xSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 ?: B+ K, G% `; d* g5 x! W% Ubizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 c* g, ^- W* h3 f”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
8 o/ @2 a2 j9 @- i7 r”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over) [0 Z, f0 U; V
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( Z7 H+ m' s( `6 U" _! b# y( p }4 o
pure luck.
& u' S7 A! }2 r”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers& X: K" z- C* f4 {* x
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”1 J5 W6 j- v) }# @+ U1 B% W" A6 _
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 I1 Q4 x+ d/ \$ K
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# Q5 z7 |* u7 s, Q7 k3 N: ZStreet watchdogs.# j" ^: K! b6 u4 J
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,3 c) `, q1 K" ^' K' e4 R* O; K- t
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ Z5 X/ |7 b* z+ C; N# Y8 M
investigation.
* L% k9 S) U7 U" g# KWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- |: W% i1 e# c! f: Dfour-hour confession.- ~& x, \% C) M& \3 W3 N: t1 |1 v
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
7 ~5 `8 v6 U$ S$ l" \7 ^' \knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 ]" v, [6 T, V! ^1 [
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.& E. T. B0 O O5 |' Y
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
% ?$ t5 L( s9 omake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
- g' _3 `- y" M9 x j- tin the moment.”; p! Z" P* F" {: q2 S6 c7 o. m; D
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% S) n, i% l" N; ?" [$ I% f$ s- ZOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
, {6 V- `' d6 qAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
( R: s- J( B4 K$ A" ~7 U$ ]& ^, xHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
4 Q4 ?) k( t, ]the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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