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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; l0 _3 R! k/ x3 m, |: P
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" s, E6 u9 W' I# w5 S0 Q3 FNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 Y4 H0 T' I4 C! ~
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!+ @5 x4 F p5 ~& C5 ?: F( y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: {* C7 k' i3 `: O' _; dbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January9 ]# V( D+ `7 D |
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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.) W) }, X1 C- j) ]
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
$ z. P# [- J$ L, U n- h, Y( l$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 j+ j# q# X1 \, Tpure luck.! y( r! W5 ]) x
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers' ?5 i) F' Y0 e* i( u7 p0 h, a
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 s* a' S; H) L+ Y) f G
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin$ r, Z$ N: l7 J; A- I, I
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,) c. B' p" l1 \
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
7 b* ~; w) z/ O2 Afour-hour confession.
+ [9 W+ b9 X; W! n/ K7 uCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
# q/ E) d; h4 m: ]! @0 oknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. l8 C+ @8 t7 n3 k
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
4 p" U0 [# ?& i; T7 p1 m”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; q6 z: a' d5 X
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught }2 m2 N9 S$ L9 x* `
in the moment.”% T- U( a4 l8 c$ K5 W
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
1 {% b# M" W4 j% n6 b g* G7 V# pOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. u% `) {" F" |5 s2 ^3 T* k6 Q% h$ y; w
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 J7 O* R2 n1 E% C5 mHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
6 @ V! I. C. N4 D( y, T/ H! Cthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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