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4 N% B3 ]/ n c% _‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ ?' }4 Q; r3 r, }/ Y. o
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 ^% a) c: i* n7 L
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 |* ~9 p, M/ F7 o( B
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- Q% X! Q$ _# v
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 n) k; y4 m2 Y7 J& C+ S! D0 W
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- G4 M8 {) z8 {
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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 J; N8 s X3 Y”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over( D! P' X. ?8 v$ X" ~# r
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers- H( M' a8 I+ U$ J, Z- d1 V
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
5 Z5 M1 X7 |+ cThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 v( \) s5 y2 l* X
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 T8 t0 e: ~" e/ }Street watchdogs.3 u: E. s+ g9 U% `% M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 R J& n1 Z, E U1 EMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing" `# u. P' i: f) j9 ~ f& Z
investigation.
) U. \( @9 \4 GWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" e- v, P7 @, I; Z" lfour-hour confession.8 S+ d! q' t! A3 W( i7 v3 b. A3 l
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" U" ]$ ?$ i" @ m/ ]9 P4 i
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* D* |( U3 |0 g* j7 Vknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 I' O4 ~; m9 a% g
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* c" _. f, ^+ u
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 _- D1 b0 | e8 I7 J! e
in the moment.”
5 s& Y& ?$ \0 d: {In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of0 p2 D2 h% G9 D; M
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.8 l# g S, O1 O8 V
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”3 M2 Z) Y4 D# U. z6 ~% G% l& k+ m
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
7 a9 U1 b* d' N; @* ~the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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