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8 i/ T; }# A- S3 V‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
2 r' ]4 ^5 d- `" N/ R0 |Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- [1 t1 v j. |. a: n
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" A' V( N# m5 K) k& O1 F9 o3 i" f
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
5 u5 S4 K3 W5 p/ aSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the1 x( ~/ d t/ g' o# Q
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January7 I, v6 g/ p% \$ ~. w7 Z$ E, j
28.
8 x$ c2 f( _& q”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
6 e, w0 Z* U" g' h4 [0 T% y. O/ D”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
! E7 Z$ ?4 x& P5 E& {) B$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
: @4 \+ R3 R& _1 ~6 p& {pure luck.
) P5 ^: S' J" h" X1 s8 a7 d”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, U- V8 n/ g2 M# u3 AIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
9 I8 O2 J5 J. u/ q# H4 {' vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin' B3 W6 E) I* Y. Y. o$ K& K
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall# n: ^$ [; l; ?
Street watchdogs.
2 O: W3 J, B! Z7 D% ?' t" |; C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- p' o) i+ i! [- w0 EMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
* u0 ~# }6 ]5 A; u, t6 g, rinvestigation., @0 |' R# T+ ?) e+ O1 t3 |; ~- @
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. R3 ^: m0 T A3 ?7 k
four-hour confession.3 q6 F7 n; ^# E& F7 g
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
1 ?5 @+ C) c8 f9 \% oknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with L9 [( m4 ]* a: [2 k
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
& |4 |. v8 o9 i7 E/ v- R& d”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
6 p& Y+ c" i* W; a* A2 }make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- ~3 k# K; Y* A8 n* D
in the moment.”
$ g3 c. R3 `$ R" o( [" \* QIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of' _5 O5 i" g d7 k+ V
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.; @. H9 p& D1 t3 l& c9 L. @. k
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) p4 n- J& U. T$ U+ b/ b; l
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
: d; w& U& q: i+ j- `4 A- m6 L4 w) y5 k/ wthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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