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# f, F0 U9 w& p" \; ^8 {6 T" _1 L‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 e v0 B& g$ h" W' Y' b2 c! p
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% F" ^8 ^7 F5 R" b1 N: I% i0 ?* ]
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
$ C6 W! `; Z/ g5 ^# M7 ]charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' ]1 }0 U* ]- U& P3 ?. N
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the# c7 s3 x& @5 o0 ?; I
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 d* J5 [: V4 Y T |”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.7 Y6 V- h* c {& v
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over3 m* {8 Z {# c5 n x$ p0 `
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be. c5 R1 f; Z* b+ C( H5 B3 }: ~$ ~
pure luck.
o, z, b2 A) p/ N7 ` ]”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& V" ~0 N$ s3 h4 E! }Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% F0 q2 X. @+ T& |" q9 l9 ]
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
4 o7 W! C, J9 b2 |; f6 imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
' y2 H# K7 w) a% N% ZStreet watchdogs.
& D) S# T) B% [4 J9 U3 _”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
8 w! s8 j* D4 RMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
7 j9 h* n" ~* ?7 N1 W0 jinvestigation.2 J. A: N9 N4 N8 ~& f
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
$ l* ~0 w, X$ w" k* Y6 P5 W, Efour-hour confession.+ Q; p0 _" {' r/ c. T" C) W, b
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ H$ x; a7 }8 ] T- u; B9 {( u8 t
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 Y" {2 J/ E$ X3 h5 _knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
/ k5 ?2 X$ T- y, q. v7 Q' o”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to! v3 }# h, B+ k: J: e1 q) N
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 X p* t1 w z) u9 l7 ~in the moment.”
5 b0 @* s D( W# s; m3 O" O* eIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- \- h4 w& @! G& g" n2 [) R2 X3 O- }
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" M( _9 ^6 j- k# ~, Q5 a0 ^$ SAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 G Q8 G+ b1 x
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* Q" Y/ W4 f$ ~; E, _+ i, Z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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