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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 x: I9 x9 S+ Z; J+ E0 V
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN) @8 c Y+ D4 M1 X8 c" a* R
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading! i3 x8 G1 S' T- E9 h; M
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, q. N( K( y1 g' t6 ~( P! FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
! Q' I' v+ l$ ~$ ubizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January* r% o2 ]. F, C8 E5 Z
28.
% ~8 [/ R8 M* H- B- M' b8 l”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider." w( e7 {0 ~+ F" l7 Y* Z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; {1 s+ ~4 [% ]4 `) s+ n
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 }7 \) @2 u( ?+ dpure luck.
' J% V' x! q6 I1 k”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ n% R: A& h i$ M" ^( R
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”: i5 v" Y, s2 F9 k0 A
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 N u; t' ~7 Q& T% Z8 _
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" O1 s+ F' D; [: Y5 o2 RStreet watchdogs.% m# A* H2 |& f2 n
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 _6 O/ j/ i a3 Q, q! g% x: @+ l6 F
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- u" h5 |1 h' e' P/ f$ z. N: Rfour-hour confession.
" b5 V. P j& F% CCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common, Z4 s( B$ _! [+ d) N
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, U: d5 ?) E. N% p: ^
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' S5 b1 C* G- a/ o L”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to/ N' Z' J3 m7 J. L2 o
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught. W+ F0 f* Y# J# d$ q' o: Y
in the moment.”
. O- d( k; U* n$ tIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 i x5 y' P/ B) k2 X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! c5 ?7 X& Q6 ?( AAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& \7 g L) ^* f, p9 l1 i! Q* ~
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# Z+ M( @5 G _0 D. X) Z: b
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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