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. {) }. w1 `0 @, X0 W‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
% k" x0 y7 J( L: c" F# i( l2 uWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN v A, g# D) s2 t- b, K/ n6 a
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading9 B* a; \8 s6 t* @& F' M1 J- h& @
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# [7 }0 ?7 | v% O
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
* `( h5 s; t2 ]! i" s& I# ?bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January( z6 z7 l' L- }% M4 F8 L
28.
3 R7 t+ k# q9 h q”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
4 U! y; ?- g- G& x”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
7 O1 P |+ W1 s3 S8 O0 {$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" c5 `) E' I# @; e- x% hpure luck.
8 {$ X( a$ @+ |5 n S$ Y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers7 Q7 n3 m7 X" Y9 n3 X
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( J0 [) ^3 d" K+ W# }; dThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin+ ^' O; p$ n0 A
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 g. I5 l7 ? UStreet watchdogs.8 h4 M2 ?) L6 e& x
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," i% [( ^+ n4 g( b
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' X( u" X0 _' w& k! A8 [" a& ?7 p
investigation.: t! ~8 J6 K% o1 D, s( q
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling$ z- }8 R' i1 Y! @3 Q
four-hour confession.
& F6 r# J' e5 R" n9 E, UCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 i0 `8 N, e9 W2 W
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( v( s! c: o8 ], oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 y* T/ h0 _$ p
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' n. B3 f h- ?! c8 n
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught `& ~: f, |9 A% v. d( G2 U
in the moment.” }6 L5 q; F; n/ K$ D& r( `
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
: e6 y' |- g7 K9 d: @% TOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 K/ V; z& ]4 `/ b( g. x0 IAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”3 \- }( h! j7 Q7 A- d7 S1 j
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 v* g% h/ v L( V" M$ hthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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