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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; R: s* V' Z7 j+ @- gWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: X, ]* c$ h5 A; r; w9 Q" @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ F3 S- ~& r! |- f. h, O8 ?7 l
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: j" R9 k4 O+ p" H& A0 B( CSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the" R; }1 T& G1 J! e4 A4 p
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" u" s$ I' k7 d8 ^$ \" D
28.
/ @/ D# Q" ~3 ^7 h% t$ O”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider., A# K7 a X% T% B; c/ k
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over4 y+ |9 G* K) Q
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be; y1 Q e* T% W, B3 C" c2 c6 I' t. S
pure luck.
& V' c" W- N1 H9 N6 b3 T”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers, K; w/ z% P9 {; f! s/ m" A4 M
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 p/ ~7 D S$ V7 v4 W) HThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
; ?$ [% K5 U$ ~" e: O7 C: l/ Qmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
2 w7 J0 u' y% X0 TStreet watchdogs.5 n8 q% H z* T7 A% ?, j
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& `1 p4 w% P2 q) s
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing C3 s# g, `6 I% F; X
investigation.
9 l* L% [* b8 _) c5 S/ j6 L2 BWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
7 ~; I! ^) r: B: I, ?5 d. Kfour-hour confession.
9 ^( I, y+ b }0 }1 ~Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
6 v/ n' E, O! {4 D8 \% e6 Q6 Dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 k( b& k9 ?1 W* i& Q: Dknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.$ O! X+ x& {! {- V1 S
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* q9 x+ C& @* U1 Y( p! R; I4 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
- I7 f$ C' ]- E/ ?in the moment.”' Y" n) o% H& I t3 X: ~% \3 [. v
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: M+ \3 R8 b7 B6 E% z3 u
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.% { P6 M8 V K* `, V, J6 Y* K. [
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ P' u0 y( }0 o+ z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 S2 w7 W2 W" ?* [ ]. g7 Z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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