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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING. D% b! m* Z9 X$ ^% {
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN) s+ w9 X& U, y; `" j: I
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
, C! Y( Q9 c0 m z6 Zcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
7 T) E3 i% X# B2 @! w# FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 L# m0 Y6 k8 e1 R$ lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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. I! w; E% t& H" P0 ^* e3 `0 V”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
0 k I' o( q9 B; t! \”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" ]* K3 R2 G7 X
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& A" T! u2 h* j& k2 ^pure luck.
8 a* Q# l" K6 K0 E) E3 ]”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# \ ]2 o8 v8 s( W# D$ vIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# R9 F# u+ @6 |The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# d4 r) D& H# R2 Gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( |! X! A5 x* N2 [# X+ z2 sStreet watchdogs.
9 }" ]0 _: ^ n3 H5 U8 A”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! w5 V0 a# ~4 t. V, B0 p; `
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ h, E! `+ C$ W( M- ginvestigation.
- a: V( u! A( H. q5 GWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. ~7 R6 h/ s# _ K
four-hour confession.
8 l6 u k0 ~4 F4 M' E+ BCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common0 a9 {, _. {: W6 w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
! P; @6 h8 B5 F5 H: P z4 Pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune., l* V; B4 B( Q( q( B
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( U$ v5 a6 o) `2 Z2 ]5 \' s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught6 a) D9 M% X9 z0 _/ |& R$ l8 N( O
in the moment.”
) }! f" u5 s6 \5 k( J: H0 yIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ v8 ~* w9 f+ k9 R u, [4 H8 F
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
% w* s4 L s* ?2 U) ZAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ L) D3 z3 h1 D8 \
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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