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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
% z% J' ? g" h1 B# ]: x9 tWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
2 s B, y7 q4 J5 Z# JNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; E/ w3 S5 @$ s% {) H5 [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% Z4 L6 p7 T3 {5 P$ VSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: l/ j9 H# k/ k# Mbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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. w/ U% Y3 G e0 K! C8 l5 w+ g$ x”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
0 A4 r3 ]- @7 _”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
. y4 g6 p a# x5 f$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! l! J; {* O" r% r( d3 g4 M
pure luck.- u# _/ v0 j9 R0 o/ u
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ ~: ~6 f4 C* c& S* c( S
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) A& G/ ?/ @5 vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin) G0 @# x3 j$ [) G( i
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 ~: r2 j n1 X) v$ ?Street watchdogs.0 H+ u8 M4 o: v2 u+ s
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," q9 |0 t. x% G% v! _4 U, b
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
7 R: f& T, f. K2 C+ O. Rinvestigation.
5 t: C, q, B# g5 MWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling& A' C% e; r8 ]. v+ u" [
four-hour confession.
6 C3 w3 ^& Q; h9 ?, L; s8 kCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 w# N. O8 I( B' e& G# uknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
6 Y2 n$ x3 }5 m: y3 N: q# r& V# W! lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
( F f7 Q7 `& A$ j) t" x% t+ b& m”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* `5 ~9 d3 j, Y, S
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
+ n- Q' F! m8 W) ?3 V: f% v3 Nin the moment.”
$ Z: N5 H' `+ k& sIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
/ }+ p- V, W' q% T! b! ~' {Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 h! ^9 W1 h s8 C) @All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' Q+ U: V! h; Q, B
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear2 z6 V* X5 _: ]! T0 n# R. A
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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