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: H4 Q+ a* C2 k. w- ~: Y! ~& `6 Z+ S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING1 M, U t' x; l; f& z; m
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' w& h! x& I0 ]. gNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 W& \3 d$ L" y# k" |charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
9 `* ?9 R" q5 V' KSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 b3 I5 r' O- i. t
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.
6 S9 Z5 H3 U, l) d* w G”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: `0 O7 I& d* d7 v' s' D+ \. K
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 ?. B0 w( z* Z9 |- F+ Epure luck.
9 ~* @- |8 T" ^* d* Y2 Y5 x8 o”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 |& B0 I4 E) X6 k+ h
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 E9 w# C# c. kThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% |/ z% q9 F* k4 a e- _! v
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,, @* `( h8 ~7 K1 f' g- y
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# o( L6 o7 p( I D. c# V; o/ ]/ Minvestigation.
8 d X& A3 T4 l# Q- u) y0 X' CWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 f6 s5 E! m' z6 c( Mfour-hour confession.
3 t) L" ?% i# B. SCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 H6 G2 v+ k6 ^
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 c7 b) c( B# L8 W6 pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 j2 |) A% e" b5 H
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
+ N- A, L7 g1 l8 F6 |' g0 ]make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught g" d& ^% H1 Q: M
in the moment.”
0 J7 {/ Y0 t" p% rIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% b: q# b$ ^ x6 @* X8 [Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 `) {' b. l K% Y4 kAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: k6 V7 a' W- S7 V* \ C) MHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear" X: j0 k8 l. q! k8 V0 s
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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