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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 S) R1 N) k$ Z q! v) ]2 `' n
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN3 l/ o' s& s& y( I
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading7 X" G4 i# W2 K2 ?. M
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
+ o7 h- k: `+ NSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
) k, v8 l5 d! c3 s9 U1 X" \! xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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! r$ m& w. V( p, _! S”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.: {2 c8 Y* P9 P; V$ z! W, B
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( ?# z3 G# d0 c( H( q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! j( c- o) X" [, z7 wpure luck.
7 ?: F/ U9 S+ n4 W/ h”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers" g, ]0 I7 @6 w" [2 N) j" P( U+ z& A
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( B# \' t# `5 X4 c6 ^" OThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 _4 A1 `4 Z7 g& V
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
H4 u6 l+ a( f4 M8 mStreet watchdogs.
S5 @' n0 ~1 Z”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,7 J1 t+ s% \/ u D# ?
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing" D3 v/ G! Z: a$ C& @% y% W
investigation.
1 X, }& M, f' a V1 T2 A- w6 l$ c0 FWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling/ l$ b8 z1 v; Z/ B: @
four-hour confession.' }& j6 x! ?; C
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
7 u' q$ i3 H. Y. \6 aknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 o/ L8 m+ {: ?# Q8 Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' g# w7 p- j2 f8 H; I
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to8 s! k7 X' j% \) r' r0 p
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
0 G+ K" R: G1 X' k/ X$ Hin the moment.”
6 n& J8 P0 ?) _7 u8 l- UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* p: {: C( ^. J: t5 xOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.' Q; z3 R J6 ?3 [, F) h
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
6 U( o2 ^- } m/ {2 lHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 X* F. d# }1 t: W( `, rthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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