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& F+ y8 T, ^% ^' s‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
3 k% h3 |) o. ^Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN, _( L9 H4 a% q! D* b9 Z. E
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& k! A; x+ w/ D. |% C6 scharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!+ a+ _1 k; n+ t: R. H$ T
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
. z1 |5 g3 [# @9 J: l( x2 Rbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. u! H4 [8 s- [' L
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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.. l2 k9 M" I- G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 F5 y& E1 z* D- R1 l
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
0 q7 b$ [3 {# k; T8 j1 @- ^+ fpure luck.
' B7 G& W1 a$ N5 N”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
3 Q: e a7 X5 t" F2 \Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”- g; `& j9 N% n: Y$ P
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin, q3 ]) X6 }* V, p
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall4 m6 v; W4 P; s0 s- V! y1 Q
Street watchdogs.$ ?7 n- z$ ^' E5 X- M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
* ^7 [" R x- B% F V iMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing3 m! A- g, N$ W! E o, x9 Y4 ~
investigation.6 s, ]! M# x5 I) S+ Q9 s1 t
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
( q2 S9 w( Y9 q6 R1 _' T9 d9 ofour-hour confession.* g" Y$ \& H! C; r/ h
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common# z/ F6 |" s1 s$ ^2 ]) {6 L
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with% ]/ E, M T' N) v4 v# ]' [' v
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.2 {8 P% d+ s l( D: k
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& u$ f, y$ s9 h5 p, @
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught8 Q; C. e8 M* f- o/ M+ Q) @" v
in the moment.”
- G- p2 O% D3 M6 s% m% K3 NIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# q& R) ^) u$ {2 N3 `$ q# J' f. D; OOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& Y( K" }7 B( R! G
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”/ {3 C* C0 Y4 g4 k7 L8 b7 |% D+ X
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
: P: z4 X( m$ x3 W' F! x! Lthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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