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- F4 m9 F' S6 I0 G/ q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING" n8 i0 {1 u/ k5 J+ P
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" |* |" N+ Y& I" Q/ R" aNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading1 ]5 y7 Z9 x2 Q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
6 P- O) s/ H8 X+ ~Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 _! U! B: P' e) [5 l; Y" w& ~7 R2 F
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 }/ F. y, F# O# m( ~
28.
; Z0 H; h* E7 t- X# B3 q”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
: B6 t$ d; A: n7 C6 \9 j+ t”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
1 z9 i! |! ]+ v7 q( u$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
/ J$ ]( [+ J- lpure luck." C( z4 i7 M6 W6 o, x
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 G; h/ Q. `5 Z l/ K) |
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 k% f2 g9 I3 mThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 q8 D4 E% ~# o- O8 a' l3 n
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall; M/ O! w$ }. G' }' R
Street watchdogs.
- n2 y3 A; I8 D5 E( A5 \- a6 s! M”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
: N5 V; N5 K T3 ], [/ {Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& {; E- [7 Q& c) Ginvestigation.9 D$ m/ Z$ G( j! M8 G
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. ^! ^3 m: Z2 ~; ]four-hour confession.
; o) K# @7 K" iCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
& b+ o' f3 O0 [- z. l _' x4 Wknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 a* E/ H- h- r" ~& \
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.* n% X8 N5 e# N% j
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, s$ T6 O: Z/ {3 h; V
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 F- n- Z1 ?' l0 { o
in the moment.”
: Y; O! p6 m" z0 dIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! e I8 W9 u+ u, t5 R1 Z9 l, AOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.* v. K, W* B# q
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 z" Z7 `. N" j7 q2 d2 j# f3 b
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* \! O( c) x* G% Y0 c/ D
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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