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: Q" Z- n! o2 U U( b9 A, B‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ g4 F* V9 S) x7 b2 t/ DWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN$ i0 P# r1 o, c
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading* s' y& v" n6 @8 J$ u
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- v6 M2 \- Z: j$ @- s' C( b KSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
6 d3 F! X& P+ y* C' V+ Gbizarre 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.; R3 i* ~2 {8 B$ n: c% r
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 R+ a+ c" u) J- P$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
2 t% {' D* d* Z+ V+ C0 hpure luck.
2 x5 {8 C! U+ k$ F! I) i”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers [6 B9 b. m7 t0 w
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
^% s; K7 Z' |6 x1 g6 O" fThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin' K+ w6 g* {+ z" n3 Q! U: Q
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall( i% b- w/ ?4 ^3 J4 C9 s! }6 k
Street watchdogs.
+ L+ X8 g4 h% P [& k& X0 t) O”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! b- \! y; B) p8 C3 ], hMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing7 @. ] Z9 z4 b% h
investigation.
5 u% Y1 V3 j8 U* o9 @0 M3 SWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling1 ]9 a# R. n) C
four-hour confession.
i2 M) p# A% PCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 x$ @ m' g2 x3 D2 _knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with- G9 [, B# h1 k$ O$ n0 N
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, i$ t0 ]1 a) R( ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
- l, L: O4 M, f* P" Cmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught. s( N3 d0 N9 y" i% j& R
in the moment.”
, ]. ~! q2 b) k* {9 e/ ZIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
: L$ P5 Q( C8 O0 |; A5 W3 VOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 N( }6 j& ^8 v& H' e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
4 e7 Q% i1 B8 `5 kHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' ?% R4 R2 {' n t7 ?) Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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