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5 _- D( O5 @0 `3 i‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; r) ]' F' n; ~9 N6 Z3 M5 ]2 \3 MWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 z. k/ M' r( |& A6 Z6 o0 p( RNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% F& ~! z! N* e p; V! qcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!* \. F, L+ z0 Z; Y( W0 u
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the( \7 h8 K: n7 T; l6 Y- w3 D/ y+ A; h
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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. \* N9 Z4 ]" b3 i
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 S! O, q d$ ?0 a$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be* ?8 e1 n, y. C+ i
pure luck.7 C0 D" ^* C; f. u: @' F4 V2 I
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* M( ?7 V" A% ]/ X k& Z1 bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall$ D1 A Z; U' Z7 ?0 q, e" p
Street watchdogs.
: w/ G' M) y& A! ~+ c& j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 K8 a4 O t$ i
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
1 j" P M: L$ N+ F' F+ ifour-hour confession.
; r+ B0 `. T& F4 KCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common6 r' m6 D. V L! f' q7 f2 s
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, [" H3 q1 H( v
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
4 ?/ l# E: b. K”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
r- C" z. m( b6 Y/ a9 n3 ?- amake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 g8 ~# v' I6 x. r
in the moment.”! ^$ ]4 ~5 N, V
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ @( U5 P# v8 ]$ B
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: R5 n( u: }* t( S6 X
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- E9 `) k8 j6 S9 z! m; vHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 |2 `' `$ i8 I2 E4 i8 z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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