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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
5 [; A8 x! z4 XWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN, m) }5 @; I$ h5 P2 t4 H
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 @4 @7 Y: ~1 g% h/ j, [" Ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% |9 o _/ H& @: g% t4 dSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
; \! \$ Q5 ]9 M8 O2 V, ^. obizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January9 u- B7 J6 i' _" |( `$ w
28.
, y z; |# T3 e* N3 O) |”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.& m! I5 b. c" H9 c4 s7 M8 w" x
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( c- O' P/ R9 I) d0 Q+ k7 t$ K$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be% M0 n7 d3 h6 B- \# x2 ^' K: S2 q
pure luck., T' x% A3 G( x: w5 T$ w
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
5 r: w- }6 R- s, x5 S+ |Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”& Z1 U, S6 p; o7 \( V* F
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
h0 A$ B; |! z# Imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,# }8 _' z0 }- t! P, C
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
. O) p, m. _$ ginvestigation.
2 \& e. Z0 ^/ @" D2 w# c& l! eWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
6 ?1 X, v6 y/ L9 a$ u. W5 ~0 ~four-hour confession.5 o& o( P, |' D' E: D, e) a3 k0 g/ Z
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 v0 C1 s6 ^- ~6 L( [% yknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
; a/ D. \. J: n7 B1 f+ Rknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
# l1 Q7 E: c/ Y# i0 ]”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) M( @) T2 i2 @( Q ?5 h$ h
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
. }; ?6 V% K0 \4 T, min the moment.”
: ?! `1 x! ]- f2 M: U. aIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
9 l1 l. y' [3 R& A' l2 j& Y' hOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 h! v* _; [ L6 X2 D( dAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”1 n e" N2 R& M# D
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear4 `7 ~# f( ~6 y: a
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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