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5 l8 _7 P9 B. C3 U+ D8 b" y: N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
V; P$ G5 }: f7 [8 cWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN L6 H9 c4 B6 x+ v
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
0 _, V5 b6 j7 V. L5 ?. D" h2 Z5 ]! ~charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: m0 q; B; M; C, E: |2 U& \8 U
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the# U$ C! a7 u) ? Q3 K8 `
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- s: N8 M1 w- Z# @( i: |
28.
8 m# ?$ [4 W. ]/ M- ]' X”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
+ m! l4 d9 c, ?' d0 _- Y”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
/ x M* s/ u! W% y* b+ ]6 V/ G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' f: g: e% O4 }pure luck.
# D$ l5 p! o( O6 p( U B' P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ C6 z# a; o& a
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 y8 X) l9 [% y) @9 nThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 i7 O; f {& H7 O2 _
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 r' J$ l: q/ j9 ]
Street watchdogs.+ G5 a E3 b% J9 L( i! W
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
2 {5 o- y3 t% ?. I+ q+ X3 d& mMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% M& _1 V; }% }
investigation.3 O9 C2 a$ I+ ^; D8 x
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling0 B8 p _/ S# C4 H h6 J" B
four-hour confession.; {/ B5 H1 z: P* [6 x3 L
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 j+ H5 k/ a+ m3 K% L& i) I
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 h: ]: q& R8 oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
8 J4 u7 P" P: R1 i+ u. U3 y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. D5 U2 U$ R! T. \" o' s0 C. Zmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
: O0 c' y: x: A+ g- Cin the moment.”: }* k6 H: s+ Z0 Y
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 h" S7 C; T. A
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.% X6 `) X4 f: X- Y6 H* v7 n
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”8 v- ~, ^/ o+ b% W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 z9 D% y" b( k3 H
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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