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; a* H# L+ s m& |6 A- I‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
7 E2 @- N- }. Y/ H! H! z+ G/ MWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
2 f: @0 ~, d4 n9 ^2 a9 c2 l2 H2 M4 uNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading& w8 n; R6 M: G/ V0 v$ t
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!; Q+ [, |% x' R$ V0 t5 b" s% T- B' x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
- e# C3 R6 I1 Y: P8 }0 j* `bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# v/ f* H: c+ \% Y6 s/ e- \. h”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
6 U8 W G# k( e5 s' A- g”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- R" s- y2 c6 Z6 Q9 |
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
, M8 p W* J5 O, V: E# _pure luck.
7 B. j4 |! j" x7 m$ E J' i”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, o, j8 `3 w7 t% C6 cIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”; p4 S2 _3 L* L2 V {+ p) i8 L$ S
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; U# p# u0 B5 `
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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/ V0 [9 M# p/ k |”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,1 Z8 D; ]* E5 U' F ~
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing8 B) j |$ R/ k9 o( P: p- r2 w
investigation.
- M+ T* }9 o* ^+ Y2 JWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling2 o' j4 r4 T, n0 w" x0 J' K
four-hour confession.+ q) {# n# h+ W2 ~# ^
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! h7 h' o/ U5 g
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' \- Y' F3 h! u+ }
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 W& ^ s1 A: t" X”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to" e7 J g' f) J! g" 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$ N- @4 E, Z, V2 h. x
in the moment.”
3 Y" } C" N- DIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ ]1 K8 v/ c$ x/ ^; d) n
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 S9 U% \8 T. e! bAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: h) }7 K2 {# q2 QHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear2 d" q/ f( g* e$ @& ]- m' y
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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