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8 ~% C1 A& E/ x* b, t* s4 [‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& X y) V! t# o5 ^) O
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ V" b( i" b9 ^NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
) b8 q% D* a; ?1 `" Y G' scharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!. w" s3 c/ c5 n3 S- D/ A' _
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 c8 e- X' ~- }
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.
9 R* |% K" F( d q”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 m: x1 v& J+ c* V( O" {* C8 x
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& x3 m5 C/ k$ V) ?
pure luck.
! B) w( \) [! T: _”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers6 P3 g( k2 C- }* Q" l: M9 T
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
h1 @0 D* m) I! y- \1 g6 y* w6 p4 {The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. ^/ F, @7 p5 ]1 Cmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
% f: u& H: }% N# N! S, r# u' o5 ^7 aStreet watchdogs.2 {. S: y, Z- w) z" y; Q" M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,7 I7 v5 j) |# q, V1 c
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 Q: G" c/ {3 s- K% L# @* `
investigation.
' y4 m' L& r- B- o; D6 Z8 B9 YWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ \) [# B" S* Q$ K$ ^four-hour confession.- b% Q- ?0 i6 u/ ^, T
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" U) ]7 F! s4 Q. L+ T& `8 N+ l
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 B& p, H2 X1 \/ R. H# n
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) K3 V) H; y. d9 M
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 A- l3 H- p" n, u+ ?- z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* W2 q5 a: {1 V, E$ m
in the moment.”% {: Z9 O v4 g2 A/ i4 c
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 l% a& V, [8 X K) V' }0 l
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 t5 d' t3 \) [$ O0 R3 ~6 O0 lAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
1 p9 U7 ` w9 n" d) s' u1 d! fHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* P$ [- e. [- o3 P( g# Uthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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