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! O& C- o- w& B; p1 [! G( @, r; P‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING- c7 U/ ?1 z' s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN) K, N/ d+ R) Z0 {/ ^* n
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading1 w3 [6 o$ C) x7 f3 g6 b
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ s6 t: u# M/ Y! ASources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, m: }! h1 z4 t0 g3 r/ F$ u
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.% y, q/ e) D2 G7 ?
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 A8 e- s, E$ s5 e: E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
1 [4 l# @ _2 V. s' \; |pure luck.! B% E) Q1 T; Y2 V5 Y! c* Y3 Q) g
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 H, ?' l& T/ L1 d R
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
9 Z+ S# b, m% x( mStreet watchdogs.
: e' L1 `6 d$ q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
/ v) L, R0 e" I% AMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 `! i) T: @$ K
investigation.3 R. p% I- W8 B* X% b8 o
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling' u8 _0 e1 d9 Y- i9 A, n4 ?7 @
four-hour confession.% e% ^% z5 C) ?3 ?
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( I7 j$ n% k- Y/ |' q& m3 N; \knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
# Q- x2 { N3 o/ A H6 j! B( @knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; E; v6 l2 O6 V4 ?- I$ a* e; c
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
( C6 h6 Y2 V% _' \make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught% ?1 Q. e0 J8 i5 z4 m9 G
in the moment.”7 k, A3 ^3 a# E0 l' k2 }
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 y$ A0 r% _) \
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ R, A7 l1 E" V" o8 ^All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ |' {! |0 T) L/ f5 DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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