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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING0 z/ Q0 k ^" Z
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 Z6 q4 ]/ o1 s" r: H. m$ HNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! b; G3 y9 `& F4 E2 Fcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 I- D2 g, ~3 y; m2 d
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" U2 [% X4 B+ s0 ?! ^" Kbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January; f( B- M# N% n; y9 [
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3 V7 Q6 p, {1 z. x1 g6 w”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.! r4 M& v5 \8 N8 C+ r- R( ]: [
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
" R. n! z5 r2 ?+ {$ a, M$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ C! X$ w Q; X L3 n. k' M
pure luck.0 z' g1 P+ u- R3 a( t3 F" W
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers. E# p( f1 p, X A0 J
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# {3 b& p$ g3 A5 v+ [5 F3 vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ G) O9 j! b/ k. s( X$ y
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 o9 n1 n% B9 {: @3 M+ m
Street watchdogs.
6 V6 \3 q4 o! }! E% D% @5 v1 Q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ [) J. u% J! B7 R* D5 AMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
% P5 s, z7 k; X% ?; ^7 pinvestigation.
( D9 q) b' o# z4 w+ k# J" AWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 n x v: }( P" E8 Vfour-hour confession.
( e8 X* D/ o T5 _( P" B# }# sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) e6 [! }5 V6 L8 _: E
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with4 s- U, `3 E8 Q) x0 t; T. n$ f
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.. o$ f8 U$ ]# m1 X! I
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to: k0 c7 q0 p0 z5 u! F, s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! u4 e* d+ _, l! W9 Pin the moment.”
6 }' Y9 I( q3 X6 J6 r2 NIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
, [1 R0 {: H. E% c, QOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' D) [2 D/ g8 `( C. }' nAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' j4 Y5 O, q7 @2 r
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ S, e& |3 B, R1 w6 m) X0 \
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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