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1 i) C# I- u3 b2 x8 t‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ A6 B3 R$ q: ^, b. a; M# z: r0 |4 s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN# @) {2 B- M( R; {3 v0 E5 E
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ f8 M3 p: Q& J$ ?9 Xcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!* W) ~1 w6 n) E$ X# I, Z' u' z8 V- c
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 k9 L$ w4 J: ?* Q- y1 i& m1 Hbizarre 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.8 B2 `, v! L6 g2 c$ U% n" p
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
6 m4 X0 L3 r3 R1 e& H4 i2 [/ C$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 ~: |. a3 d1 E- G3 h2 Ipure luck., N3 P' F# y- E+ l, k
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ F, t& a: r* H aIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! B8 V6 K& Z7 V" x0 o' {* XThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 y$ y2 D( G% c# g; i
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall% J/ { O0 X3 R0 w+ I# d5 d
Street watchdogs.
: S, N( n# d# H. x) ]; R! m: z; m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 ?( F: s9 D* W) i1 y1 y
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
( X5 d/ a* ?3 rinvestigation.
& N! _! x2 p0 |$ U+ d7 x! d* @% iWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
7 K" d; s' Q- d; e0 V( C$ `$ `four-hour confession.! n2 a- _9 _: v! |3 V3 S
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
' ~- ?8 E0 F3 H. b. F' G' yknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
) X6 H( G6 {- s- ?, W4 cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune." I% ]' p0 ^% x. A+ x0 t
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
) d" R& h/ w7 t3 I, [! Kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught1 r! s" f* q0 \( P
in the moment.”) s, @& x; n: C" q1 ~
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* @* O& N0 J) T g! VOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& {% F9 \+ l0 T/ x o7 g/ w- Z4 V
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( P; `2 M1 G& u4 f ^1 k
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! }3 z( h% ?' ?" _/ a: G$ qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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