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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf0 M$ F- h% _: h$ J- G8 v7 k
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 K# |* M+ Q( k" _/ e; U i8 p$ q! }% qWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: c Y) i/ `7 U( o7 Q/ f' [NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 t/ A; E1 b! B9 k- Vcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- z! z3 l8 L7 ]. N/ p/ sSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the; y5 F7 U; X" i% _2 W
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January( U, y* W" j6 J1 j! H
28.
; A$ V; ^% m/ j# z) ]1 z" J: i”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.- \ u; `( d/ d, R6 B' `
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
, f7 r2 ?# ~& B" Z) ~$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be) T- y2 E5 f: r; Y
pure luck.9 x+ m0 h) t( \0 U
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers8 t7 A0 `4 e" k2 m, L9 Y
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”& L& s1 Y. d/ P# `
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* e5 K0 t1 F4 g. Kmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall. F( _. x0 U6 D$ h* \
Street watchdogs.
% U0 Y7 Q* a8 o7 g”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! p) [7 Q) t* m
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" ?- d; C* Z8 R! i8 z. P
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 W/ m+ i5 Z/ N* w2 iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) H4 M! Q+ T( l) v" k5 A2 N( L
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- s+ B1 F9 k; B2 K' d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
, g& R$ G' ^: s& r* Win the moment.”$ |6 T' Y4 r1 \- h/ s9 h
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
% q# G2 o) S( @3 ]2 [Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: J& [" P. x0 L2 N/ |7 V4 u
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 y$ K @/ f4 f0 `; `However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear h# l- }. Z8 |- ~+ t, B
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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