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+ h! b7 F) E/ p- i* ]3 a‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING- C1 Y% ]$ ]2 B W9 p- Z
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
- H8 j& c) [* v! F. vNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& s, u: G! P6 ~0 ~/ s" ^5 xcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!/ o+ @! C* u) i# k
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the$ z! f# p* G2 t& J) J9 U3 R
bizarre 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.
7 M0 @0 L! ]3 h! K' e. N* I! w. n”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* Y$ `7 q- ]- P+ x! r& B: _5 `5 p
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be6 ~, l' e8 f) u# Y
pure luck.# c7 @" J& @6 H- |, j! f/ ?
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
+ v& p( F4 W' B) z3 |* O' ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall7 ^$ U- c! o [& K; R2 n3 A
Street watchdogs.4 E6 z3 x1 y3 u4 s0 M/ m4 s Q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! o. e, z. d; v _& k& H( uMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 E8 M" }& g/ o+ q- e. n: e+ _& B
investigation.6 k) H1 X" {& ~( D- B! A- h
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' N# i, K- S5 W7 G0 gfour-hour confession.. T! o5 z$ `7 A" F" h9 K
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; ?5 c B$ A5 \ a
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( v" n8 f( c4 p: c+ b' l2 S3 R- Jknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! [, ~5 b0 [) g7 [”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 d1 ` Y T J* A' P7 ~% m1 j
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
* i" T+ w1 p& z. Q$ ]6 Iin the moment.”
H; j8 a1 z. Q# j" tIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% g4 J5 j5 o% MOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ L/ r$ f' D5 p& nAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
Q; Z9 b6 p* v4 \1 JHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
: U# V2 M# g% ]- sthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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