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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
+ X: Q, H( b l' R5 MWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 e# a4 B3 m: \1 o) Q& ^9 w
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading! s7 P$ M( Z" @% N( g% d
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" y" J- t) j6 j8 j7 s# t; R0 k
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" t7 }" V; K- Mbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January, ?4 F9 o: M! h
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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 I. f, M# l' w! Q& y' X
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- I( k& w8 F/ Y! |; f( [0 S
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 k; H" {7 E8 w( H3 ]$ z ]
pure luck.
6 s, G# i3 l- ~7 V) 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
" \: E7 s8 u3 v cIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”, u% a, H. k+ t8 t- s# _. ]0 B
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
u; I* r$ m0 E% s/ U4 `6 Omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 E. w6 E) ~* @, E9 S/ x" o( r
Street watchdogs.; F( t5 n+ }- E/ @2 |
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ L, A# N& b5 A0 v; Z- KMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing" K8 T& o W3 M
investigation.( x g# b/ C. @' i& U6 p# E% I9 }
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- A1 P1 q& W k1 w4 C. Y* kfour-hour confession.1 w# k n2 Q9 m, k
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
0 V. J& c6 D. ]( O2 y( nknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
; t' k+ O2 [% o& K9 Bknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
" N" J5 P8 ^/ U. w, n”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 [; }* n2 q! P% ]7 e& _( ?9 e
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ `6 R7 Q0 |, [
in the moment.”
4 C% g- f8 x7 e$ DIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) z3 Y; L; V$ i4 K) u p
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.4 u {* t, b1 \6 n9 @0 p
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: a$ [8 g( a% K6 J i& VHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' T ~" C7 \3 l% I1 [' |
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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