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, E9 X- a0 o2 D3 ~/ K‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
/ J" T; A8 a( d: W% M4 C" _# cWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' E! L% }8 z" @- Y( E* ]+ _NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
" Y% b+ o g" i* dcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
1 P/ w/ r6 a4 l9 Y3 Q0 cSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
% M( i# D( R. c9 q+ w7 j1 Dbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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4 n0 _% _) U P( ]”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
8 m* q$ R. B: i1 w3 O. @”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# ?4 O1 q* G: i& T7 B+ m# t
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
, l, u" F& v/ g5 `+ Opure luck.
9 [2 z7 _8 r' P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
- S v* W# x( Q- j( o5 UIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ S+ p, G6 |) n4 T* u9 MThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin0 {' R8 j* r* i% w/ O
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ p3 E) a3 E8 u) ?: g* P# AStreet watchdogs.2 @! i5 ^/ i) m* L: o0 N( R
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! C# x0 r: L" j! {" I5 n, cMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ F( Z% a% d* n. C; ?investigation./ \! s- z" y3 O( U& Z' L
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
$ H. `$ s# g/ z5 w: a. Tfour-hour confession.
- P$ Q: W: y- o2 F; ?1 HCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
! v9 D p; v! m9 b' r' tknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. R9 y' i* {& M9 ]+ J2 kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.# J# J/ E+ i& f7 e8 f: V
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( _1 o$ T) O2 s: Z+ b( }
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ O- h" }: f1 A* j; a8 M$ M. X6 J
in the moment.”
+ M3 K" F# D G5 fIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 e3 s1 _, k* ROsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: T5 w2 K5 h; V$ Z7 W* h
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' |; K Q) n% |1 Q& Q( v, F
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 @* |& i+ W+ r! S, |$ I) p
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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