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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING3 a! _+ P7 L: S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 M! {5 O- g$ o2 M1 E+ r8 Q+ X
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading% t' s& p9 t8 ?3 ]
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
) U- U: r4 u# J" ESources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
( R- G U9 J* r8 S7 n, q& Vbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# {. V& Y5 {9 \3 |& L# k( N' Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.( |/ d9 n8 a$ ^% R" ?0 E% J3 I
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ f0 S3 M" g8 Y2 P
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& b8 ~' I, ~8 C
pure luck.
; b5 T3 B# c8 r2 N. `+ _ f”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 d# o' V; V. j$ B* ~/ i, R
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”* }. ^: ~) A, m. o9 L* t
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin o3 f* V/ x4 x R8 D
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 a2 q9 M# l1 k" Z2 u
Street watchdogs.+ I+ E5 Y. ?4 V T2 b
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ z& `( s) g* m; B4 pMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
+ F& q4 }# G( [2 P6 rinvestigation." U' c% T9 ~5 c; X4 V& j
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
m/ }+ s+ M3 f7 V, [8 G: S1 t# L" ^four-hour confession.
/ g. q+ k# h* V, ?9 qCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
+ d0 P% b# G7 Z! jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 a) o% z$ v. a0 i
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
. q2 R# h2 h i( h. U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
" T$ Z, u o2 |7 p& _3 Gmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 B4 Z) @2 ]9 K4 u. S+ C+ gin the moment.”
" z5 Y! R; ], ]! V) BIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! _0 a7 p, |1 z) @6 l7 B$ yOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. ~0 `5 a4 r- ~2 N- x
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”# _. ?1 `& J5 s- i( X
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% N$ E9 i1 I$ F, ]4 S5 J. fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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