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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
9 x" o: X7 ^+ X8 B, LWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
4 \- J- H/ ?/ p# e9 mNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: B. ^+ W. x/ _6 `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 c: p& U% n% f u6 m/ qSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
m3 ?3 _9 u" K( D) Cbizarre 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.8 i' P9 A1 J8 [' i! I* ^
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; H1 k- j) S9 R9 @1 Y# W/ V# P
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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4 T! r5 G. ~5 v- k# X”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, E: y$ e7 o+ h) S8 M+ y2 B3 N) P oIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# a) {3 g0 \* \1 ^8 c2 {. vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
( V/ n3 s/ x" s4 U" Bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 P: m9 x4 d8 [ S- Z5 l
Street watchdogs.
0 ~0 ~9 c; @+ M4 b* i) t. y”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,( p- P( }2 f0 | I
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
4 n) `% g B2 g7 Q1 a4 d5 ^investigation.
; U( d; g1 E$ z) S* C3 |When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" b* H- R1 Z1 S5 X0 o; V5 Tfour-hour confession.3 G) T K b( [* }6 I# {& E8 ]; O
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( b. _2 Q5 D( L2 n* Cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 |, |7 n# {- o6 _$ n& Mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 U) o7 a% g: g' g”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to! ^' e: B1 V! U' @
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught0 q( b% q* r* U" }6 j
in the moment.”2 E- D$ d8 u2 [8 @% i& \
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of# e8 e* T8 J4 c& S) S% q$ U. m
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 m- J3 \2 c' e2 _
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' ^* T; r& u' g5 w4 w5 @
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear2 A( M! C3 T# i$ u/ ^
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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