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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: m3 Q9 t: ]" C a& z- N2 ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ t* I0 F$ I. XNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading t/ r: ]" ~9 C' `, x% w$ n
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!$ L p, F- R6 k! n! I- ^
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' x" `- H- s: D1 w6 J# L6 Y2 R# bbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January' M$ ~" v! ^5 S6 y
28.
3 v5 |) ?2 F$ W4 e3 X: x: B: ]/ ]”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.7 v* n* N3 E; D
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' [ n8 i: z: } B7 ~) D$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 L8 i! }8 N! A4 d |$ t% ]
pure luck.
: U. b/ z# N9 ]4 m' J' x& ^- K; M”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
! ]- b0 h/ z( v; D H+ h# t6 SIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”7 p8 e6 L5 ]2 O
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! `' g0 X* F! d- Omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- j0 a2 h" t) s- Q* Z; e3 F
Street watchdogs.
+ q# Q( l- g! g3 D”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
* t: e5 A% R: S9 L% \Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing: P- Y8 ^5 j2 E8 F# k
investigation.1 z; E: O& J2 Y q- o% I
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 h3 {5 }1 Y( U2 e& b1 r" mfour-hour confession.
* w, J% w3 a- `8 Y& a# {' z+ sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; W8 b' E7 Z" b7 ?: l
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
6 F" D+ |2 u0 e' Eknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune. @/ n) m2 E! \0 x. e& V
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to7 k2 I4 X6 F* N% O
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
. w1 S& @3 J; ^in the moment.”) C: T i8 E# `' ]2 a+ `
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of$ R7 u; K6 C) h" I0 y" _
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ N+ N" X# L* c4 Y0 l3 {All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ \9 C- a+ e7 U/ z9 q s: z# a: {7 F
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
; }. W2 m5 M; A# L% Q- jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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