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6 @+ f3 c8 V, v( L‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; g1 B8 T; F, _Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ {1 L) N1 s7 w' BNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& O. P3 |9 |( }: z: Ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!2 l9 d) l! h9 s: D. y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 g4 c& }4 m0 z; F1 F3 [1 Ebizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January+ j; p8 z4 X/ T6 z6 Y- X
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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 P0 I3 ~, I: m( N7 ], \9 d”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: g3 n) ?/ x: P5 k# B$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be: R s$ h! d1 m8 k, \' w+ p
pure luck.
) z+ ~7 w+ }' l- l”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
4 n! V5 d# T- K F' j: L- [Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ g( t% u7 v" D' U! _3 `* v
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
3 V/ J. s8 V, Y' ]0 nmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
$ Z. o0 [7 ]- a0 z. i8 KStreet watchdogs., Y4 i' y4 u/ L9 }+ A% R9 X
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,7 p6 K; j" D* j& t+ [
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
; e0 ?" P. K* Z8 Cfour-hour confession.
. O" b. x P* w B% D5 eCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common. d; f6 P \* E/ e% z& j% [0 F
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* }8 d9 o' s0 {' c! C" o/ Zknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
1 s, [, ~2 S1 k3 N”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
$ c4 w2 e7 M) S( x8 O W! t$ wmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' F l4 T% t3 n1 t
in the moment.”
! B, h5 b5 [! UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# ~, F* Z" U0 |Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
2 i( W$ D5 u$ o! m0 XAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 @1 |0 S! B. GHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& g: P( L0 J8 J+ V6 K
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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