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! g6 E) m% V& c* Z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING) d7 c, H( Z$ o; Q% k3 p/ a
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: l9 L4 D& J! I8 M7 Y, {/ G ONEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" R! _$ m/ c: ~! z
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* Z+ ~9 a# ~8 C( Y ~/ ?Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
& }+ M0 B Q2 V; e- Y4 m+ pbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January! K/ j' Z$ P' l5 n
28.
$ T6 h. f9 W5 j C; _; v”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.4 X7 i; G- u# a: A& ]: B
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
/ m d3 b# T6 i1 Z. x! A c/ x$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
* A' N: G) }# x- O4 W4 T$ G9 Jpure luck.4 u T: U. b6 v
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# X+ ]* d) n7 n+ i9 HIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”. y& d. h3 l N3 H$ v8 `
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 n$ N0 p+ r9 J; S4 amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
0 U+ z- D6 Z5 R7 N/ H5 M7 |Street watchdogs.
. t* u( E9 m+ W”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 L( C# z- @5 J) A4 E
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing/ F8 ~! y: _* }$ R& C
investigation.) l; K: F8 d) u- q) @+ @. L! l# T
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- T, u- S1 ?, b, d( a' @$ w* P
four-hour confession.& }! Q ~: H9 [, D( p9 p5 ]$ [: ~
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
/ a5 m4 j# F6 \! h1 iknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" M8 U3 e4 a( \" kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 N) `4 D+ ]& o% N/ [
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
8 G8 ?" K! u7 f9 L7 ~/ \make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 x% c- a! k, g0 P3 O$ r' T
in the moment.”. r, d( x: q& u- i l
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of, X* l5 C$ j, Z* d
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 P N2 d7 ?% }' M. D# a
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”1 m' D& |/ i; `# [
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 X* ~+ V- q d7 b! A, ^: w
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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