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- w, e% O7 f2 e, Y( v; g8 l( J‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING3 }7 J2 e/ O1 U( L' ]6 u
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% Q+ X1 T( y9 l4 s4 FNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ r2 i( U! p" _! |. B9 zcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ n; ~1 D8 g, V! S: m+ m4 I! mSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. U+ ^( t, L/ G y e: q; J5 e
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.
- I8 ?( V4 ]! {”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# u% h) n; D1 Q$ _; z( E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" C2 z, a# o) j# _& K wpure luck.* @ g: u$ \) e, Z
”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$ B- o' u# f0 u7 GIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" \" i: T. |6 O8 Q- ^" y1 Z n( W& YThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 ~% o4 B! }5 g% g2 fmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& j+ H& r3 S7 Z7 |5 x3 a5 ^
Street watchdogs.
$ g# Q# r0 m. [”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," f. m1 q7 o3 A$ V* |6 D
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' O/ {6 ?& f! t* {0 J nfour-hour confession.2 b6 `+ H" r& R4 l
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 [) o/ Y, y* [' a
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with) M% z* r& p B* T+ e
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 s$ N4 Q# X3 l8 j2 O”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 I/ u8 `) d' J) w% u
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 c" m5 Q/ t% ?! L1 j2 QOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 c& T$ h$ a# I J2 p1 U3 O+ {All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”4 [" M% ^" ?' W$ V" k- m
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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