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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf) V! w3 v, j& E3 @! j7 g
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
9 n( T. I( s. f2 R- ]Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 ~% t) W% n ^* |; T
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading- T! c: D3 p4 v( L+ G4 Z# X$ j% l) V
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 c0 N8 Z7 j8 @" M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& B, c; @% M9 C- e
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
S2 i& C2 }( s5 p T; ]& h: Z3 m”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
8 K G% p; Y& j4 {* y3 o! A5 e$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% ]/ W& o' Q4 |3 I3 X( ?pure luck.
6 u0 R4 n: m' {”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
8 F n8 d ?% v/ k6 C, MIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”# ] c" y0 S: l. d. \5 H
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. o6 J9 X, w2 P$ d5 `) mmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
; i: i! q( `/ h* [. f+ ^7 y5 |' D5 ?Street watchdogs.
' o; B V. m/ N( L+ \; {”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
/ Z; Q" `) h9 B) c6 h# PMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ f3 E; n$ Y2 \) ~% b2 a: c8 \
investigation.
/ J. u1 I5 r9 o. K# Y, N6 g0 m L" L% NWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
( x5 P2 L" @, h* ]four-hour confession.( S3 _9 m$ r" Y& j
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
2 f9 \! x5 t; t* o1 Tknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
; h2 [* i9 s2 X9 p- Wknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 S3 Q0 y; w, G3 L( G”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to$ [4 I( d& S! j6 V7 h2 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
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
) f$ e: `+ G* @( P& g6 h( O) kOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS., P4 W: I! d! w( z6 U3 D: |& ~& H- U
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.” m/ o! q+ l8 M: i6 T! I% z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
" i8 C2 c' J- W1 Fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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