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; ` N/ M i+ I‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
. ~8 o) s0 c2 p8 gWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ D# D9 J9 @: J4 G, z8 I4 U
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 c2 E4 C3 R( e% W: e' Y* Lcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: \& u1 u0 v+ V. y0 R$ p PSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' G' R! x& B/ m I1 P2 r8 L- ^
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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2 \& D1 u% d0 b: u6 S- {% Y- y1 m”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ R6 g. G/ S& V3 _ g
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over9 Q8 s1 B( ^8 V% E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
+ Y5 b/ O y0 K7 \& u3 _! V+ K, L4 Tpure luck.
0 y; w4 y# G& a h. f. t& \”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
? m# y5 g( ~3 Q5 [% VIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% T4 [3 F0 F8 J3 P9 iThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
Q, f) @2 r% ~! zmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall" p9 @! J: Q' b6 a% {: Z. H
Street watchdogs.
4 X& e1 L8 O8 U1 M+ x% Q$ C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ K0 H1 N. r/ C# mMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
8 l2 l8 g7 i% g! e* C+ C9 oinvestigation.9 U5 R2 d; N* Y2 E% i* |
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling3 X4 D! F: a& u) y }
four-hour confession. \% J) t/ x( @5 v
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common: S) J% B) Q; E+ \5 X, U
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" s7 }/ C9 v$ Z9 a. E2 m
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) G- U* I# W5 J5 B- y6 b+ t2 z! Q. K
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
; h# Y( @ }$ e# h% a" [( o# Gmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught( p- D$ O, v- A. J
in the moment.”5 z) U5 b6 {$ _) A* x
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
7 q$ g6 p+ X6 n7 s! K! jOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
2 ]5 H+ ?" H0 a- y8 G' wAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.” c9 p8 m3 [) a. ?" I
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- ~. o; _* P9 Nthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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