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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
( r8 N) n3 [8 h3 l# j* u2 U$ JWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN d B; R$ t. I+ A- T7 D; F0 T
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& r6 B F& E; bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
9 q6 k# [) o7 eSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 H# n- W! D9 C9 ]( W1 d1 G8 ?
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 Y6 z) [3 D" q5 k" F! s: n”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
2 H/ V: H* X0 H( Z”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
5 k7 d" Y& D2 y7 D- n% c$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 o: ~; F+ o6 w
pure luck.
! ]# O3 D& Y ^ i$ H/ 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, ^# O4 |; `7 g# \& n
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”# D; d( [4 W5 M; ]: ]
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
( Z. a1 i+ W& ^- W/ omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' A: D. |1 q# D
Street watchdogs.$ t! N1 S. {6 b& b( J, O. @: p; m, b
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! y. {+ p! Y* s' u
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' |" f6 m/ Q* p; j8 Y# p( j5 w
investigation.
3 ~) W0 W6 X$ n3 BWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling2 [5 O# j5 W; \
four-hour confession.0 y% x: `7 S0 X o, C7 ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
) j) L2 j& v' T6 \9 G* dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( h" ^6 @ {, |/ a' |% T
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.# b6 @; b& S" Z9 m& Z0 H
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! P$ u) h3 I, `9 Mmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
+ w. [/ c; { l$ l' C# \" I2 k/ Tin the moment.”! ~ t5 H+ [+ l( h' Z+ [% w
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) q9 |4 n3 L7 q& [
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: F! V$ u/ C0 ]6 I2 s* C, Q. BAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
4 R9 |2 L7 X! |5 M( l+ A) h9 s$ xHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' n2 S: Z7 N9 [0 p9 @8 m9 ^the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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