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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% x* U. ^3 X8 q$ b, i: Z5 A! f
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 M3 g, j" h8 l2 K6 t% hNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' `3 _* a+ M5 y9 L7 F' ]: H& u3 P
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% Z6 n) ?2 ?8 l9 t2 h6 t' ISources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
6 I- K5 [* B9 \ wbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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( N+ E4 Z c& g& _”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
5 J! b3 R4 r1 ?' u/ h# e”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
" _) H4 L6 m# ~$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
( T2 z* ?' @) B6 a& ppure luck.
+ G2 M5 H8 M. s, C0 L”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& w, D& B {. MIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.” l/ y* a9 s% e; D) N
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin+ W3 r. R) ^! c3 J
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
x, D' Q4 N& f/ i/ A+ CStreet watchdogs.
1 A$ a% p/ z: H4 v- j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
) G+ ~4 W, R) |" sMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! L! t+ }7 h. e2 J o8 q5 h% k& Tinvestigation.
* R0 [4 x* ]: {$ V, D. OWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling9 D8 J" R8 a: M0 l: L2 w
four-hour confession.& t. o, v+ H! ~7 @/ C% Q
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% g# S, ~ a% A% V2 [5 x6 ^5 y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with- A- o- L* P- Q0 Y9 O6 }
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, b% ]* s8 \# ~7 P3 s”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to1 y% h+ Q- U( \3 g+ p( [
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! n0 D8 q0 Q' h1 C& [) Qin the moment.”
6 T+ H: g+ |. u+ m T" j% WIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ f4 v7 v* ^0 a
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ @! T- I$ { BAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
* y4 Y L' A) Q4 \1 E$ h/ m4 LHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# o t4 I r g/ ~; P! s! L2 I" kthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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