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0 T$ V0 a& S: p2 O( T2 A. k‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
- s( N" m9 j& ]; D7 I. tWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! L1 f3 N k' O5 d/ V' I
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# @1 C& b, ~& v, gcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 B* V! t* }5 w" B$ V: mSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 V" ?) Q6 i& Y, O( Bbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January$ a7 n3 B0 s- `$ ^
28.
" |' t$ ]- m5 S/ U. j _”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
6 p+ Z: ^3 r \% [9 C3 O/ h”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 X- a; H b% D7 Q. i+ {* c9 P
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' ^2 q& o. Q4 G& Z" R5 f3 r9 epure luck.
* X2 J% t) R1 q' a" C& z”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) Q1 C5 b1 |+ u! x6 p
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”7 C/ L( I! z9 o4 i/ ?, r6 Z8 T' s
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin- q4 l" W; U Y6 q- V1 j
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ K. F& ]# t; XStreet watchdogs.4 e- b; v9 v* Y5 s4 \7 J; S. n2 }5 J
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,2 u7 f& T7 E% @8 }2 m/ E. c, e
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing( O" W+ C+ o7 n, \/ A
investigation.
' |# f" r1 x2 ]& B3 lWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling5 [, @7 G5 U/ b; @2 Z% R
four-hour confession. t& @6 }8 B7 T5 f; U6 B
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 `0 A; N% Z9 U3 t) B$ o; z" r2 A. I7 l
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
8 p4 C" W0 h$ }3 lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: P; Y6 ~- R6 |* m* h0 }
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& k, R( M1 |8 R/ `, [
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ |$ D' O. Y- ~1 s. ~! ]/ ?$ H* \
in the moment.”3 s3 V: _- f3 O& N
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ D/ N3 M8 `. n: Q/ U5 _Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) d# A. m4 V- n, V2 n V% Q, mAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* `/ X- g, { s3 L
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
( m* g4 B! o: W0 B& X7 Rthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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