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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
, P# c, s' A1 J8 w7 |. vWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% p! k0 T1 ^) [# m
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 T; F' [8 T& j: j. Jcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!/ y. H& P; U# ]4 G
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
% k4 ^. s0 W; K; }1 Y1 R7 s y E- f- ybizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.! t. w$ y1 G, Y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; {4 G* x+ K5 O+ v$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be, I+ ^$ B* U; J! w/ ?
pure luck.- }7 E, T' n8 @+ l6 |/ b$ 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
! e. a) ^. O7 D& j+ p! SIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
* [3 U+ I3 `3 ~: K3 u2 [The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 A: B9 X! M: a& w" B
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 G+ U" e Y' R6 S
Street watchdogs.
/ d4 Z6 T+ g% C! s# V/ l- H”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! W, G& |5 J: b) f
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 K! ]9 ^8 Q# U* n0 ^, H" H5 v4 \4 ~
investigation.
0 ], F7 g( N7 uWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 j7 U+ d7 E [: \* U2 Dfour-hour confession.! D/ {) G. F9 w& H) a, V+ K
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 W6 R, Q$ m7 J
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 [9 }4 u3 ~& R5 z! S: D ?& Oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' E+ ~0 X& ~7 A, [) R9 x3 v
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
$ |* s" u6 R' f. q6 w. ]$ `# l7 vmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
8 T ]; k- [) jin the moment.”5 W' F: Y: W. h. U# ]& Y3 c* B4 Z+ X' L
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; c& V3 G8 ?1 S8 l' X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. t( c" _ w, {* x/ X! U c. ?# V" OAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 r) L- v. O. k8 C( \However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
4 V$ C, {+ U) qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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