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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING+ o4 }+ C6 X/ g) U- E
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN. p8 g% Y5 d2 s1 X) }9 r1 V
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading4 @9 l; k1 l2 M+ P5 `, `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!8 g3 Z, v. x; c7 ?8 y1 a! X+ Q. \
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, C( s; h& L( S! t$ ~8 |
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
0 h v1 F- o6 R”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 h: Q, L+ J6 F$ T" J
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" f, x; [9 z' m1 A0 ypure luck./ Z$ Z) ?% o9 b& V# a
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
) r W! h& R- G6 j |Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
o: R; Y( F; vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
6 \1 N& q; M" i1 S+ D$ ?4 b* mmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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3 f, b" B' T- [3 h: h3 }1 K1 |”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- _. v g( n/ B8 iMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! \5 l4 s. ^6 T" S7 p einvestigation.
. j M5 p3 M4 o0 i) S2 {% {/ gWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
* ~. r* B# m5 U! D) B4 [5 R3 pfour-hour confession.; O8 R6 ~! W; W1 C
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* b3 E/ b) T& E6 Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 ?& |8 ]3 |7 S
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
/ o3 O! j$ R5 h6 }1 G”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
6 P! \$ A1 `" n- ^% `! lmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught( G; g$ `: a7 Y0 R7 w; w, |
in the moment.”
1 y. l7 w' a! B# G7 i/ GIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# H7 t) ]4 G4 {$ [Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
U& F) g8 w* B- [) mAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ U+ _: d* B9 i+ X- A
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
6 O/ `; k' P4 B/ t$ G, s, z9 gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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