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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING7 z* q( c* G Z% ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 F- S+ Z6 w; c7 u
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; c1 i+ T" x0 [9 B! w
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% r; _! f% P+ T) l. Z0 ^; @ w& ~5 ^6 |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the4 W% g4 r2 Y) j0 j, x2 ?$ l9 b
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January6 i4 n/ h" z$ g, a w; d
28.
. c, I7 }- \8 P”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
5 {& `+ H" X/ e4 R" a" ?4 b”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 F4 P# V" r1 R# s
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" m; a& g* O% V) U# Z q! S/ `6 I j" Upure luck.8 }5 ]; \, N+ G9 Q# J% B
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers. v! Z$ d) i4 j* h" u2 _
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 C: D" K( k, }* n/ zThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% s' M8 D! {) E) G/ M R
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
8 S; n8 v2 k' X ?+ w4 uStreet watchdogs.2 y+ U3 W1 D, Y8 M' _- g$ v
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,/ C" [ Y; T; o9 m; f
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& ~9 m- Y) C* K% S' v- k9 _investigation./ H$ b. J% l e/ ]3 f
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. L& v0 X' l" `( o. M6 m$ G% mfour-hour confession.- d- ?- D7 I( I, S/ a( A6 O
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: ]* I! ]+ t6 F" H+ [" d6 cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 G5 R6 _; }" n3 h4 q6 a
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune. L5 K: \, ]7 u+ f
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 \; i5 b' G$ i8 i- g, w0 c/ a
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- _) k: y* x! ^5 T# T7 }4 p9 \$ j& y6 ^
in the moment.”
3 {" m# v( q7 k9 Z1 j6 YIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of" R; Y1 d7 J$ M& B2 b$ E" l4 T
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# n" C) e/ E$ rAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
Y4 I& r1 l1 n0 e; b! JHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 a) {/ s' b: T" P0 j4 b) K
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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