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! D0 m1 O. s( v5 K‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
( t! w: |. k+ V, D; l5 oWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN m3 o4 v1 T6 t) q( {" l
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 M0 d- j: A; A" s/ u! u' Ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 G0 D8 ]. g, r% w0 XSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the4 K/ e8 U# }/ O2 c
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January1 L4 q: \+ O8 c. q3 Y! ^
28.
r5 O2 d" L8 c4 q" V”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider./ S( S* r& T) d* k
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
5 ~8 k* ]$ e& o. b: E8 |# q( A6 B$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be* a; o2 t* P" [! q* V' ^
pure luck.( l4 M) g2 x1 J1 t9 z1 A
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: @: V% F* w7 x LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.” [8 q1 P; B3 o& O8 }! G# o* N- g
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: ^7 [4 R4 ?8 ^" S$ |( O! \made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
~& S5 R4 `5 ?6 [2 u- CStreet watchdogs.
8 h( V- q8 Y, v0 {; r0 a+ k”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 a9 ?, E( f# w7 b! N" NMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! L% Z0 S) B' W! f, Z5 w$ w
investigation.
. m3 q4 r, l: _, t* n- Z1 pWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
/ j9 M# O' v: [7 ?four-hour confession.
$ G1 [% a& e6 Q% W/ c7 {Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
g& x7 {* r- `1 J3 l! G3 W5 Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with2 T4 j9 U% A# \ V G$ v
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune./ A- l+ H* Z0 G! v7 b
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- U3 t- I/ X4 c" I/ s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
* K9 K9 v# h% ]9 R7 C/ n8 Qin the moment.”
" n9 u. s6 ^1 |% K( S2 ^: q- p; UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of" \3 l1 B+ m+ e* m( ^; Z
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 j6 o' V5 n# H; {All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' K' ^% m; j3 E0 tHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' h* A4 }' U0 g: ^6 a/ Fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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