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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf$ V7 G) C! N* K5 k( c% F
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
: Y9 {! N1 ]# |4 _! |Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN) a2 w/ E. J; K3 j
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 B+ a5 Y* F. S2 O4 c5 S/ n
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 D6 h' A& D% l4 [2 f
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 }+ J& `0 g: ^9 qbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January+ ^! k/ Y) [; _- Q$ p1 \) Q! N8 K/ A
28.
0 M" `0 H$ o. S5 l0 z- K) g”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
: ?8 u5 d' j: g) R( b( m6 P”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# g" c/ b" r5 p& |% A
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 o9 P5 U& h5 g& T# n+ t* V' X
pure luck.% B2 \1 Y+ W" p( l% T$ k% R
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: a9 l$ ^! J6 R% V; pIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”. _3 a7 a$ a7 ]) z( t1 p; N
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; D8 m4 K5 ~% h2 n6 b4 n9 f
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ R% n) ~, T) i! e& vStreet watchdogs." S4 n G* P0 l! ?5 A( F Z. h
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. A- m, l8 J) G' e" ~, C2 kMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 d: _5 U0 z' n" P w4 m
investigation." v$ ]7 l* U. I" M
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
$ R4 _0 @9 m1 W* m3 A- Q+ Zfour-hour confession.
7 W1 Z4 V! L' K7 k2 @' w+ TCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
% \. R4 @: m$ U: ^6 Qknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* @$ h# B }" S* u
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
4 v0 L6 w2 }$ @# d: Z5 Y" D( W' g”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
/ f9 Z, X0 M3 H% K/ a0 Mmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
6 a) z7 S" e) Y) R) d. hin the moment.”
9 E1 v4 u8 W5 S3 \9 f7 R/ ^' J. RIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
\2 a5 w% J/ x) E9 D9 `6 C: n' UOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. y* x3 h+ o5 T9 \5 L+ p2 X
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 v' O1 F( \ v7 }1 n* a3 ~% S
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# b M, T) [; G
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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