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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING$ |( ?" B7 Z8 q6 W2 r" p; |5 k! w
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
1 x% s6 z, l# r* N8 {NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: X4 g8 h2 B6 T& p
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!6 o6 |" a: N4 _+ V0 I
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
# O5 H/ `+ b9 L+ sbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January0 q H- V! r8 b' ]% U3 D
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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.1 P! d# `- @9 l8 `
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
/ y9 C* C& F0 G3 a6 Z# D: E) I* G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% \% _# a) T! R* ?4 t8 @* g- bpure luck.
8 E, n0 K' n+ q" @2 I( |2 a# w* k6 Y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: a6 s" N4 R( k/ @+ q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% z; a3 e- F# A& c& G. U; n7 {
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% K6 g- f3 W* \) H3 P
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
2 s: r9 ?5 v( I+ [; IStreet watchdogs.
! d9 i8 ^+ Z! b$ Y9 }”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," C6 j" W+ {/ A# E5 p t
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* _3 m" E' h# K% J' |, P6 |
investigation., ^6 i/ W9 R% ^1 g2 t+ g2 D
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
# B2 |$ f0 `9 V) S, ?8 i8 Qfour-hour confession.
7 ?- q/ {5 j$ yCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common# R+ Y6 z$ b- @ _2 c1 F7 I
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with/ Z1 ?% }9 p, ~; \$ W% m
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' o1 m: h) M, w \”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
$ _# k, ^0 r3 H" b' Lmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ ?3 {5 E3 R/ W& ^% K+ X: }
in the moment.”/ Q" v- L0 ^7 H j* B0 j a- G9 x
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of" ~$ f& Q( u7 Y2 s
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 U" i8 Q) R; r1 hAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
5 P( h# N1 b" ~4 FHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, ?: g& z: F, M' `- N2 l
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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