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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
7 ]$ t! I+ x, c* `" VWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' j' l |7 R7 ?7 t5 E5 nNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ O* i1 v# P7 T O9 m" n% p
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" R$ L( F, R; |1 }+ Z% c# p( X. i" \8 f
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 w0 f2 U* L3 H1 F/ ^9 B6 Z! `! Fbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January( K* \; z* `: O5 h
28.
9 L; F0 Q2 a6 Y! d( B”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.9 J$ N* \0 {" o2 e4 O
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# D4 w9 J$ a9 K5 |' K) z$ S/ w
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
5 Y. |% y9 y) Q' N0 BIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) T/ b B# J3 ~1 n6 YThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 e7 C) ]) A! p: I. Gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 b+ i# }( C8 R5 ]Street watchdogs.% R/ K7 R( d, k5 d8 e
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
/ v* _. M# O5 }, S& h- G$ OMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing5 I) ^# A0 N/ E2 L
investigation.
: k* H7 B/ E @When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
, L/ y# Z4 f' V) i! o/ q& V& t( Sfour-hour confession., T$ a( o5 b2 k4 |
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 }: e8 J1 g* z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
9 S. P0 t3 g0 J( J& `% e& _knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
2 y2 }2 }8 N& h8 B1 L2 S”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
+ T; T- x( e/ v: J3 M( }1 Bmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) s$ Z+ Y8 W Q7 R6 e1 U/ ]
in the moment.”$ \( a& E& j# K% e
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of( Q3 ?+ X+ V/ X: |' [1 S o" t- h
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
3 c, N6 o- @2 V+ a% xAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 y5 A9 y' F8 w; R# H3 B
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% L2 e3 }( |5 L8 v5 athe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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