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* K) n$ q& a8 o4 a9 \) {‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 T9 ?- i/ z1 ]% G/ s" eWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN* o C# C! i- h' [! p$ w
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
' ` ^9 }7 x4 Echarges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 p5 o8 a% t W0 i! \: r& X: d9 F
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
8 @0 Q8 A" c9 Z' }* ~. pbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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- P% y; ]2 ~) ^0 ? f”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.$ U4 X, b* M8 O* ~% l
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
" i( u" N$ u1 t) g$ r8 Y8 p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 J8 z/ o; D! apure luck.8 O5 X7 [) W: r, Y8 y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
7 g3 R2 g) u6 oIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- Q: m, D; Z8 c( ?) U" ZThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
, d9 D" ~ [# qmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
8 D( z7 F$ I1 r" [, tStreet watchdogs.
9 {. S) i1 v7 {3 X M& S”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
3 N2 G$ h9 M3 v. ?+ FMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
( M( D( D9 |& l8 H+ n6 J8 |0 Minvestigation.
; s4 F4 a$ K2 |' CWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. S7 G& d$ ]8 w( r) ]
four-hour confession.
9 \: E4 _0 J: C* oCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common4 Q9 J" a1 q5 G8 m' a* D
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 h* X* E. V: Y7 r
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.& E0 m: B% I, t+ l
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 J3 J! k. ]" W
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught0 P- c( f& o1 `
in the moment.”" z) k6 C, S* w/ J4 q0 L
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
2 s$ i0 a! V `Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. z) N5 a- S( n4 T7 G2 KAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
. e& I8 r* @0 w; D) lHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
6 h" Y& m- C# m; n2 e$ P+ Gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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