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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf; G; W7 l+ {- e. V+ V8 Y- t
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! T* Z. _+ c5 h" u+ M7 hWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 @! `! i5 K) i) i2 z0 B6 KNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ x4 i. {( R: J
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- U+ ?% |) w# x0 B+ |( R9 N
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 [, Z3 _; X+ d7 m1 H7 \# b7 @5 s0 n2 c
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January; L& I) @) s. X/ i
28.
2 a( f; i0 W3 c/ g/ ?0 Z”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.* a) R F+ r! M8 x* i5 |; j
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- O S) ^2 f# `
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be9 T8 D( M7 o- H; r2 j! J/ k
pure luck.
9 y7 P! u5 k9 P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! ^: q* q+ I+ r$ e) S0 o; Q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% A) R) V9 {6 k- jThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
4 `' V- a! X: K, Umade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
, V) P' x% F, c& p1 m$ n8 [Street watchdogs./ w' }: q4 m6 Z/ K) ]8 T5 L7 ]
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
0 A; H6 l1 T" t( }& c- B R- S7 ~Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
- t$ |' O1 A$ h4 {! Zinvestigation.9 m) |6 p) @2 t2 |$ x6 a8 A
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling7 ~# Z9 L! s! v+ _5 ~+ ?
four-hour confession.+ K1 T+ i8 S2 N- [0 Q0 K& y9 i& I
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- x( C7 t2 S2 [% K! u* x, n1 @8 Z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* A& f) A) `$ V% Lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.* q+ x, i: m+ O0 l9 O. w
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! S/ I+ b {* U% U& [& I2 `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 j% i/ j4 f; ^" x; I! t; fin the moment.”
+ {5 E* {/ M/ L4 z% @( H& sIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of9 n0 s8 ]; }% N2 a1 T9 j& ]; ^
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# G% o/ C* L4 w1 Z Y) U# oAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”5 G/ n# v( c2 |0 c8 ]8 J- Y
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
2 O# s2 o' {3 E1 C' }/ Sthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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