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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& V& i& l7 p1 e. P* s# ?" u
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ m* J+ ^' S! n" e& `" KNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading( H: ?. r: [. y/ Y- v; ?- Q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!+ W5 Z' u, `1 P( ]" \) M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' P5 C9 J- T% R. {) ~* Y
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January' o) k3 O- y. ]
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' J- e1 W @& w$ e F”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.% I0 O, Y2 ~! ^6 H
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 ?) `) W$ c/ f0 ^' M' V. d$ G
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& D* W- r$ }2 F3 U* y2 H
pure luck.
) \1 S! A0 A 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) ~; h7 l0 K2 k9 {
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- i! Y( R( B. b% F* _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. Y0 ]; w6 i8 J f2 Wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 a4 b5 F$ @5 Y+ R% ^5 u7 `
Street watchdogs.
' n# t7 f% o D8 s! P0 \$ `6 K5 V. \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,2 L7 Y/ @% b( l( b. t: ?
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ K' E4 h! T0 F6 \* Z linvestigation.) N( C7 H0 d5 g0 S7 f, R
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
, |* ?6 I, p3 r& T5 Efour-hour confession.' w7 T6 t0 ^1 E
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 Z* R8 ?7 v$ E( q1 w) z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with0 V! @' \/ p0 G6 n
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
1 e- N8 ~5 m% ?' ?% A”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% P: d9 n0 x7 \! c) U( J+ g) G2 b
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& U; \+ \ h( g f6 V
in the moment.”/ s4 ?! V2 _; J, Q% N
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ I2 k: C% E' c3 D- c
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" i9 n+ H" Q! n# |, nAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# W/ ^/ J J' @! [/ v/ u1 q3 QHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# A) _ }( q, u, q4 @7 `1 k$ b
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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