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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 F3 k" ~" T: q2 ~3 Y
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 C. @. s6 m7 @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 \/ L) }" H" A' v# v
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!7 N$ i" P( T9 y, T) v
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 U' m; L( r, S3 c$ @- t1 k
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.
3 o2 j$ z# L- K$ k( `9 G: t”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
4 M6 t* w" z4 S1 p7 w8 A& g$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 J( u6 P1 V, u! s# M( Q
pure luck.
4 i6 d6 X* u/ Y- ^% N”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ q; U1 o$ ?/ f: m2 z o+ l
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”; \ f8 q( Z/ Z: \7 ~4 o# Z
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin F" H: W7 z& t
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
' j( z4 q0 T: N; B3 e9 tMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ { U( r( `" S) X0 h
investigation.
" U3 k1 b$ e$ y5 oWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: Y" l5 Z. p, o3 e' I2 q7 y" l' p% M3 dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
9 ^& N3 H$ k, v2 E" k9 mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
. a8 y! q4 Q; I, g) h4 N2 l”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 e2 k, B2 r5 L& Q+ B4 [
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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' w- q+ t5 ~9 B2 _+ }7 f7 MIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
& \) \) K) y$ k# @9 E3 e0 w2 xOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: }. Z0 I: b$ _& [0 i# g
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
6 ]1 @( L# ]6 S! j. a7 AHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# b) c* |7 Q4 _( C4 j3 v
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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