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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' c$ a/ Q, o4 s, Y. z: o9 @
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% _: Y( Q; W: }( x2 g# qNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading7 Z, @) Z5 \- M* y. ^# m M8 K
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 X' Q% g e! [0 u1 R- x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ I; k" `8 d3 |* o0 Q0 ~ ^( \; _& v
bizarre 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.
3 y. x+ @3 i0 `) [”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
) J$ w; I1 H) m+ R+ M* [6 Y6 \$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' v% l& x9 V( n7 M2 S5 n3 A# wpure luck.! ^3 x3 p# U2 O) W, M* t
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ d' z7 r* p4 HIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”1 |% t1 W( |2 Z# m
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin4 E# ^ k0 q! l, f( T- \* d% t, [
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 N! X/ N- t% F
Street watchdogs.
$ J6 ]! W7 d T* k( b; `* F# v( {”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& I/ K' X7 S2 N' r0 B% L' Q
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
- ^* f. s2 J, @, Sknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ h8 G+ K% y, F1 ^# |) k# Uknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
2 F. i/ i& {* [4 S# T”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 G! F) w' Q, N3 N! kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 e6 [$ {: ^* Lin the moment.”
. b% Z% n6 g& FIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ X; G4 e) M* x1 `/ L
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.5 a$ ` L1 D: s4 f
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( J! X8 R1 H7 y) a( i- a8 N5 K
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ q& K/ V$ y5 V: j: R. u# w
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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