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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% ?# o f3 S F0 t1 D4 g& Q
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 M- I& S* Y) w5 _0 B; V
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
* \" p1 h8 B9 Kcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!+ }, w# X. K) |; d, O2 a
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the$ U- o, n _0 f4 K% K
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January, `. ~9 `3 j7 B! U o9 x
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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.
- ?- y" | \2 I# S1 a4 f”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 v8 m& Q6 @" F* {: J) J) ~$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be S( K6 I }" h7 x/ t) z
pure luck.& J6 r0 z. ~# a0 M3 N$ Z
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers" G) j1 x' n7 a! }8 l" P+ v( H4 p
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
6 t/ k' w. ~5 N2 a8 X2 y6 _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 q( f6 [$ J: t0 @8 Z: k$ p2 ]
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
6 D; ^7 u' Y9 `( GStreet watchdogs.0 e8 F. m) q! ]: v I
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," M- w; @% m' g& b3 ?) U/ Z# R
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# x, p! K! i' t; g$ W
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
; ~ e0 ^; {" p! N: efour-hour confession.
0 G; F$ f% e& ^( Q$ Q& a% UCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* M, r, F t. L% q ]. I7 J: `2 G
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, o: p" [: f# A+ n
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; a8 T$ n6 }# ~3 K) ^
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
/ n8 [# ]5 J3 o% Pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught0 X, I) p+ N, x" ^5 Z7 w6 f) ^
in the moment.”" `! ]) s+ B/ j: c6 I1 L; z
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% R2 ?4 |+ R5 k6 j r: F6 v
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# }9 I: H! q' u& N
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* Z6 N6 K4 X& u5 G: u
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& O) b$ _& j+ b% z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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