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: Y9 x2 q1 X* D! e5 u$ j2 Q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING, I8 f" n' C7 Z4 L8 i w+ e
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 |5 n8 F% N0 x! `( XNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' `' u) F+ l# H* p
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 q k* b( Z1 ISources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the1 P$ ]6 M8 z; n* k7 M
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January$ u' o" I/ L' Z: |
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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.! \/ D+ y* k6 P* A: Z3 z3 H6 q, B
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over6 D; u' `) P8 w* {8 t
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be7 i+ `6 G# y# w3 b; ~ d+ D
pure luck./ ~# j. H4 |5 {# H7 Y# v0 e/ p
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 c5 d9 n+ v2 c% n; U6 \+ ~
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% e+ i2 V6 ?5 T- _% M* H
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 P1 ?1 y4 L9 N% I- K1 F. l
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
* d3 v! A( F; m6 u# d+ W3 t6 hStreet watchdogs.
: G3 B0 |' u/ F( m D8 m3 ^! k”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,2 @+ H) l. i. n3 N! \1 j
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
) ~ J* s. k4 A! P. N7 V; J* [investigation.
; l8 V2 t6 K1 m) N, hWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
6 m( o6 @; [; L# W" i# Hfour-hour confession.
9 m* |' Q, w# L: \% cCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common, |7 o- Z% ? O' a0 n9 t
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 k" q# Z9 l4 s4 q3 v$ ?knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' y+ r" T+ u) |- Y% s/ W. `
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to$ {) I4 `$ Y1 d' c% C: ~2 z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
# ]. f/ ]; {& m+ X* q# R; c- uin the moment.”
/ H! T" {1 X% T$ s9 N! NIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) @9 R9 h5 F% b9 C
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
; `1 H; Z- h% {$ t" fAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 G4 b3 y4 u* [/ U) c
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 `: e$ s; D2 I( L! L
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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