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' T# Z* S& }6 U" F: n" z6 N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING! i0 U% l9 p* p0 e5 d& J
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN, F- ^, W. T5 m& i5 E% g G9 \3 y
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 ?, o6 U: t% J. j2 P' D% lcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
( j1 u- j. }* h& ASources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) ~9 {9 {0 F. ^# m" r
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.6 c; P: P& l! i( h. W2 F
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: V, N& M$ x1 F1 F x; p+ v" [
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be- k! S) q) P+ O+ J4 {, s
pure luck.
+ j6 _5 U2 M2 ]0 W U/ J+ y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers u) R1 v7 E5 e- X* k
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
5 I5 c" I6 n" a2 wThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! W/ h$ y9 v# U( ~3 wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
g4 [5 R9 w4 ^4 b& q# B& YStreet watchdogs.( v+ Q0 h0 O1 w9 V9 t
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
8 Q+ ]) l2 |" V+ Q- T4 k+ EMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing8 M/ Z# w3 o* T. [5 [' U
investigation.) p. q3 {' v6 R9 S- e
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
# \$ H! A8 I/ K0 n' ]' Nfour-hour confession.
0 `8 J: a% |2 R! A0 P; Z% T6 H- sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
I) b1 Z7 t; \2 q8 kknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with& [# u% _4 o$ U/ J9 O
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! Y0 L0 s, K( Z- t) |”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to5 S- H/ c% m/ i% {# d. C! x
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught5 N" O9 L: j4 B6 j
in the moment.”
. v9 M9 c0 Z' W6 ?8 CIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 t0 @6 T1 l: j& C+ |: M4 R% Y
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
2 a3 C; F g; J6 L; M! K7 ]" jAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ m2 m9 H5 ~$ u" e: H% x$ s+ j# wHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear P8 h; V% t. w% U; U
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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