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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING w$ ~* Z; _! o7 E' q9 r9 x9 v
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
1 Q. ?) B, t4 h' f1 `9 JNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ Q1 s' h' P5 W. A! @charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!! R7 y0 D8 s6 S; |( f
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
/ u0 x, B( |( F! F) i. }bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January B. L8 |# O/ v6 ~* x
28.
6 ?. i8 G0 Q7 W7 K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.% Z& r! C" K% l- [( N$ }) j- e
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* Y& P. m ]+ |8 e: a8 p9 W
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
0 o! O K& f& [8 ~- Dpure luck.
3 l3 f( w. Z' S1 @0 x0 p: ^. S”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 W$ v7 m% r5 O0 P3 v$ x6 @
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
* v' }2 x* t$ p' kThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 L1 }4 K% G# F0 D+ j7 wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall/ [" m! k3 J8 J" n0 l0 H/ [
Street watchdogs.
: O, H! U7 K2 u s: `" m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! D* o7 C. ?2 @+ y* Q1 c* ^Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing& @: O5 V# s$ v/ r) \1 g% D
investigation.6 u. r! X6 ]# K' b9 m; V
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: f2 Z; C. F9 Z% e( R* G7 Sfour-hour confession.* E8 U Z5 A, z& ^, W9 Y: C
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
$ D: q) w; Q7 p6 Dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with% S/ U) X1 ~$ s6 j5 U$ X+ Q* S
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.5 `: A/ k+ H2 x; L4 K: m
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 K* d5 \+ b" P) D* Jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught1 O7 Z/ u" w( v' ]' p
in the moment.”
& D; V6 q% P2 o8 UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* A; W* J6 T3 Q( ^/ u( t9 Y6 O" ?. f( D
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: [" w1 s4 F* `% ZAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
( y2 y, t3 u8 e% jHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 x. e$ a* t$ L( `7 _
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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