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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
' m, v O1 z* L3 P8 e" cWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 q# ], V" W. T8 @ A
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
' l2 c& s" h% B% R) Ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' N, G5 _: P: q$ |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the0 U' ]; v5 @! k/ Y
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January f% Y! w8 t0 j0 ]
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ @: ^$ z0 Y7 o7 N4 ?# o$ o
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over0 R. z' O8 u& p i* a9 S; T4 T, V
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ f9 H) t9 ?4 {$ l* F% W$ _pure luck.
0 K g5 @5 N! r/ d, j) U+ P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ i) R6 z# d% a' t! Z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. b( c% \1 s3 s. u. \
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# W( ?, b$ H" W7 c* \made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall# J. P: z: H6 O/ M* k1 _
Street watchdogs.
' v1 G8 D* i5 t' z4 }6 l& {) i7 t( U+ o”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
4 a& f! O1 N, I& XMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 _! {0 X! {0 ^; ]- p9 V
investigation.
) ~ r$ m3 s" O9 G( ZWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling! m) `' F) {. m2 m% q e: R
four-hour confession.
$ z8 R% K, Q- j/ l: @ O5 c. vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 |0 x3 j% B% Tknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with4 E# c% S$ a% o' ]9 _& A
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: j$ O! M2 j& h2 F
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to7 @0 P+ T2 T3 U K- _3 Z- e
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of( q% B& n4 W3 L, N' z4 x/ J
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: o3 o5 B, f! }" G# m" e5 Y' t
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# z! I- k" n. @8 EHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear T2 P/ N, g( x0 l! X
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