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6 S8 s6 B( _) o% G" b6 D‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) Y9 h% s$ a2 O9 YWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 ~. C! M3 F# m
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ R" @: S9 H1 B X4 a
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, k% _6 P! ?) O8 ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
9 v$ b7 }; {6 l% @, qbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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3 N2 q- H$ e; @7 y5 l# e/ {5 K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.4 n% \4 q0 w) C' Y# c
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% b* L9 I% P5 N5 D$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
* `8 m; i1 H- I1 `8 {pure luck.
9 Z8 R. y! T+ ^; l”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ W9 e2 I- ~' y% S9 p8 O
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 G! L! s" n. Z) N! e7 O4 Y% A$ |
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin$ V% T6 f5 [, p5 ], @
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 f2 Y; N0 r! |- ^
Street watchdogs.$ R7 P* h; \9 Q0 O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: i) v: J. \/ Z7 h5 u1 O7 w
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
1 z+ E5 u* {# v- n$ Iinvestigation.) O: o! R4 G" U1 v' Z
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
7 j; N4 {4 D" J$ [8 \four-hour confession.
% A! M9 s# l! U. |+ {1 s; cCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
6 Q* o# i O% h4 ?) E, f6 ^3 Z6 r; }knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. E3 t z* I2 D! R# Mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 R3 Z7 B; `& l
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; E8 ^1 P6 q. `0 b; s+ I
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
' c1 G' l: `. U3 i' Q# {$ Zin the moment.”# b/ n9 |5 b2 d
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* m; L. l0 k8 T, ]" U
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 `* l# z& O* r8 K; [+ J, ^- YAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”/ g9 U$ i5 t3 T/ U7 k3 i" O1 M
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
{; R1 l) |# ^ X+ l) I0 d: dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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