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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# a' n( z8 |/ i, {7 P$ ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% [$ \: N5 v1 O* H2 s& t
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 ^2 I& k8 p ?8 D) R- pcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
8 \% x9 M$ s# @1 U; b# R& nSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 r9 R! q: m2 H' |' h0 }1 i0 v- Tbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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g! c# ]! X3 u1 t; y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
- |( T( h5 T; z( J”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
3 X y! P$ q: Y- H& z- k. N$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ t7 y+ ~) j3 e$ K* y) a( u/ W3 ]pure luck.8 p- l4 h" ~4 Y: e/ H G W- C
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers+ N% N- e6 j8 B { V/ u1 ~
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”1 L2 v& _9 U. l3 e- F: q0 U
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin! g; \* P5 }' g8 y
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 `, u0 V" i) b: b" M
Street watchdogs.' r& h2 D$ V$ v% v5 {6 S
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& g. I* z1 b1 M) p2 |
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing, F) E. @0 @1 ], ?
investigation.1 J" J* q# b7 R
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. U" i' Q9 c6 W: e
four-hour confession.$ U/ P9 S5 a& d" ~7 _" l' D
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- T, x: w# |- }
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( B: t4 S4 D* Z, o3 r1 k
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
]' i& n6 T" O% s/ Q2 a# x”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
H! F6 u" I( r3 hmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& ^5 M" Q" a4 N7 D: Z. Z6 L4 g. @" ~in the moment.”
* `0 c6 m% f% h" m2 mIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
2 k1 }( G' o* u7 c) u( ^Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.4 y( y/ Z" q6 K2 A! X) O w4 c
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ t- {1 O" R& i7 j* f1 J1 u1 MHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! y/ \. h6 O6 Q8 H" n& C+ Gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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