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8 q/ D& r8 L" I/ m* K( [‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 U1 f1 q7 r$ i
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! Q: y* Q/ _' DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
/ C- g1 ?) {8 e4 s. Y2 Xcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% x' l# ]8 [- j6 i# j+ i5 fSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 e& K( K1 X- B1 l1 T) c/ qbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January0 {8 j) M2 v+ S) b0 F9 d+ @
28.
6 T0 @+ @% w+ N0 ]8 ]# g”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
% K7 m e, V) H6 n, x$ H- |”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, P S+ h' R$ }- t
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be t& B& h, J: N: h3 }7 w+ d3 R
pure luck./ p T3 Y. H& {/ Z+ J+ M. [8 R
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers" q" y5 [8 r2 L0 ^) C7 j9 M3 w- Q$ N9 }
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 R i$ \( p* c& H, ?3 `! ~The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ e t/ e6 g/ [6 m( X. F( g- h1 Gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
0 h% ~+ E* J/ B- a" P! y* C6 x+ H% zStreet watchdogs.9 ^" u$ m9 z- z4 b T9 T, d, c
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,3 W4 Q0 r+ E+ S, x1 t6 z3 z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ ]4 W0 W) k, D" E7 z& i
investigation." s3 T) I( H: a' A
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 u/ Q5 F7 I2 Tfour-hour confession.
/ B7 r( O5 w E6 lCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 u: f( T" G b4 C& P
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. q* T9 ?$ N B, _) Gknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 a7 g1 Z- r" O% m4 Z, K
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to. `; ?# ?$ `+ l$ d6 \, W
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- H7 U( |) ^7 i
in the moment.”
; g* J/ v. X1 v8 ?% }0 OIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. K0 U" l" O% j% D: Y/ W* J% C6 |Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ [" M$ ]- n c' O! o; \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ a8 p4 t3 H' F8 [& Y: x
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( R. g, a3 k1 A5 m
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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