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& H3 Q: I8 ^7 \5 G v5 n- e‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; k# Z$ `( L, gWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 x- i* N4 C/ S' u& R# Q% w* X, n# eNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
) D \8 O& T6 k) p+ A2 Icharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: L3 w: e% ?* E# I B8 g A
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' E- d2 s! g9 U/ H5 l2 {bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January6 w& K1 o/ }: y
28.
/ h+ O% _. ~* [) Q I”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
! N3 F7 w! C8 h2 ^# z5 c”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
) r% T% H0 a+ S1 B3 Z$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be" h) |8 N! h* Y: ~
pure luck.) v+ g" M6 _! s5 G1 a. [
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) z9 h+ B9 l* z1 Y5 ^0 u
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”' N8 u6 ]( }7 n. y2 U; x
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
$ x2 a- u8 s& B, m& r hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 X: o! L, P* P- ^4 `2 FStreet watchdogs.
8 o B$ z: F& s0 Q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- L; f7 }- `+ c+ Y- D, M* YMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 Q) r9 y' X9 B6 X) i6 V
investigation.
* c7 t6 }1 k5 K4 }When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
4 P* f1 i8 b+ X$ l5 \, F. z" Yfour-hour confession.
+ H2 X( V' l5 ]Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; j/ O! I4 r1 H' H5 ~) `/ E6 ^
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with3 ?; [, t* n3 l7 ^
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: [7 |; _) u; v4 P. `* K( K5 o
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' B$ l- V' e8 V6 i8 t* }2 Z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! r6 l5 Y1 Z, |; Oin the moment.”
, W/ [3 l5 t& F0 s4 W* }% eIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
7 p: ]2 q o& s9 }" O9 t/ I& T0 gOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.% g4 y: J0 W j1 T) V4 t7 b- O/ d
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”$ U: A: I2 |, Q+ h- @
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, z% B2 a2 u" P' \6 c9 Cthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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