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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING$ m' M8 ?7 E6 a; }6 c
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
; a, |+ f R, ^* y: H: \7 UNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 p- ?9 i& H2 d# f9 A* d" @* g
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" i$ n+ C$ C; c* y. FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the! {' R) u7 t& V9 [3 b
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. W- x! Z3 j& c! [& @- J
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6 x5 h0 K) L+ X( R, `7 A& x5 r”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
2 I1 u T7 I4 K, {& R. {”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over. t1 n! d I0 V( G' E6 Z) t% ]
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be) n9 O: q0 K! G# H/ s5 S: Z* }
pure luck.
5 V; m9 B; ?1 ]) P G0 P6 r”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers4 _3 A8 ^. E j% [4 z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% C6 S5 ^: b$ ]6 HThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 [1 ^: Y9 J$ Z, z4 F8 dmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 n9 n2 b5 s7 k( A, b' T
Street watchdogs.
Y, l4 {! B' r”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
L) W$ i. Y7 N/ ZMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 O' p) B+ ^" `
investigation.' {# H4 }! y5 \& u( S. p3 E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
9 _* s! u1 C6 H3 r+ l* lfour-hour confession.
" h; G' N+ P7 O4 ^* U, aCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, [5 h! ]6 W8 A9 r9 X& Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 G8 e6 Q) i1 b7 Z4 `$ K
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.- u7 }7 q( q. \6 a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to+ r0 t/ M/ c/ n1 i1 q$ X/ g
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
9 h4 y# E7 w: ?in the moment.”8 E4 r7 [* @4 a4 S! J/ f- U2 H
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 T$ Q* w0 E) ~" Y8 e& F
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: z+ B. a& S' IAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 L: @! s& b2 S6 R' \/ bHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
2 n( Y& k2 {! C, G" F! E4 ~the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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