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+ j _1 s8 a; S5 V6 D, y: p‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 M9 Q2 o4 ]7 d2 s- kWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
. O0 P7 q. {6 n* kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 _8 E8 O( I/ U- Y5 o3 z3 ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" I0 W/ ?6 O+ l# ]" o1 ASources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the/ A* z! @" F: R( C- H; c; M% G
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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+ Y% X- b3 n& f”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
9 e* c2 x% G* m" U0 r”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
9 Q1 {; Q8 S6 x2 l* @" z5 a) E$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be: M( F/ O& J+ L: q5 S9 m$ \# Z
pure luck.
' \+ y$ a4 }% o4 E, W. P' Y7 L”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers7 l' E! u, b" h4 p5 D
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
' o9 S1 q1 v* M- C2 {7 UThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin& i1 J) z- D) X
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" w2 y1 e8 i: w" }; FStreet watchdogs.
$ w3 k7 H, K) q4 }6 Z4 S) j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,% @' h9 @/ E- [) d
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, F1 U* r' A7 ]% I* oinvestigation.5 f" }& o. L- P( u" m/ K& `4 C t
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# X% k. V$ {& P. `
four-hour confession.
, R( ]0 w; M2 ^" dCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
+ b8 @5 F! L' ~9 l Y+ zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 i: W1 Z3 C/ s* i2 jknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
6 Y$ f* S1 C5 k, u$ b- |; }1 ]”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; F8 K; K; O3 M* Z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
: i% E0 U# T3 a- Z8 }in the moment.”, L2 L: t3 {, H; |
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
& {; }, l9 l& g: f) N! MOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.2 e$ I ]3 B/ r( Z1 T/ s
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& d1 o1 U6 h$ d- A
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
) T& Q% o2 X- ~the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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