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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf- N7 Q$ z' S# w6 x, g6 l
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& |# w& K3 C2 w
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
# U/ P0 G! d7 [( [2 d: gNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& k/ M6 r; s$ {) y" {/ y0 ~charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 @; [8 S- V' j# e$ G7 c% Y. cSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' ?9 |4 o9 m1 b
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" ~2 Q- c" X$ L6 p
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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.
, v) w! \' p, s4 t8 V& f”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over$ N9 J9 U. o6 R6 w4 Y6 }& S
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be+ a* M- [% @2 a. q$ }9 \
pure luck.% N4 x* I& |6 G+ M1 }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers6 x ]" o& {3 ~6 m
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”+ t5 O' t" b2 }9 x3 E$ B, q+ `; _
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
1 B! m0 }2 y# Z% u( P% D: Wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 t7 l( ~; y- f9 r) b
Street watchdogs.
% R! f/ t+ Y% o1 ^”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, d5 }0 v; P7 w2 N0 J* v, W& g) ]: j0 d
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
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common x3 I+ b6 W3 C, m
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" y6 Y% l& N& C2 f& Q
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.4 X* c" L3 a# p
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) c) }1 t; }/ i/ ^: h. a) ^
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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6 ?8 O6 I' R3 r$ u W/ \In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% ]' |: [9 F4 v; NOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.( d. B- k% r: w3 T! U
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# H) U# f2 P6 l9 P9 R, \: IHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# G3 n* |+ Z" U- D. Z, \. s! Y5 U; Q" Ethe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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