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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf! L9 o' Y) ?! d4 t U
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
7 b+ ]! b, p iWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 s5 |# F: a5 S% {+ W. J5 R1 f& oNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 u1 `- Y+ {7 ?# t) F
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!0 x4 {# k' r3 p* e+ k
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: L6 Y2 R6 O0 A! w, a4 Rbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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6 V5 n: ]& G% [1 M”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ E& O% r- I! d) ~$ O
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 `, |% ^1 v1 f$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ e9 G; W- d" w* ~! Gpure luck.
9 m& \0 N) n! {8 @) W1 V* L! i f”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# @- Q5 y9 }' n- S; o9 OIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 O1 N4 y, b" x }2 aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ s6 Q8 r" R; c# W0 A: R2 |. E
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' ?. r5 p$ n0 A: g6 }
Street watchdogs.
9 K3 n- T# H$ q) E# p0 D( X”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. t1 j' {- ?, G3 c" Z2 f4 I+ E4 WMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 R% |. Q! ]7 V0 ]; \8 |. T# V9 v
investigation.. K% T+ d, g, s! c/ p
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
* O$ T9 Z& x' B" x" yfour-hour confession.: [8 D$ s8 L& w0 d# }" N
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
; e8 m- I; N$ s* Rknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with% v; c. D- a4 I7 o
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* \2 D" f8 r! U. ]; V3 l# S”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
1 T; Q( R) N2 `) J4 K5 e2 V9 w, }make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ M/ L! D3 n5 N) v; C2 l
in the moment.”
" j, u, D6 s( d) q) }+ [: D3 Q7 _In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of6 }' [: z9 n2 x7 F( f
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& X; [4 ^9 w& n- y
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 i3 D) A+ h# d4 t6 C/ J
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( r& _6 q3 J% o$ z4 F2 C4 }
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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