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( N/ r3 w& ~8 c$ }) @. r `‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
`; o7 B# m9 {0 OWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! q# h& z& R2 zNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 `. G3 g2 k3 i3 u5 W0 P
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!3 b, B9 b) N- ^, d# I
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 O) Y+ u, n6 `bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January1 j) a3 g) g! d) V5 O
28.
: ]$ l+ ?6 j3 X”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
1 B* p2 G7 y% u# \”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 r+ }& Z0 t/ Y; P
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) O4 J/ V. c2 g6 O6 x4 mpure luck.
: K" G- l. F& C( N) O, Z4 S”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
* d( V$ a3 H$ I1 VIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 o; i. g% z/ x! S% A: PThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 E q6 p2 n5 E! H" P# \
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 ^5 J# n- t" h
Street watchdogs.5 y5 N0 w: M5 v7 |
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: n/ P. h$ k: J! k2 a6 {
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
$ d# @) |) y4 t2 Sinvestigation.
4 m1 R" J/ _* X! A8 p5 SWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- a) b3 T! G0 Q l+ y
four-hour confession.
6 q M' Q: |) }4 k$ c' ?; Q) ^Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common( ~ t/ ]3 Z* X: J. ^
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
, D1 H4 W& R1 z* y; G9 n' bknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.+ \' _( |* f% g% ~6 F) F
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to q1 j( W$ W$ ~; v' }+ H
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 g" ~" k: f3 k
in the moment.”
7 d A% U. [( ^0 w' X+ @In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 X4 S% ]% [8 d$ X }
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ p/ X$ v& S2 M1 g) r! x$ tAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 O+ b) V" n) K8 K
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( d0 @* y" e1 j' P/ h, w. c. d
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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