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* q! H5 T6 \" m2 D‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
" v% _( [: H# }; S' d: E6 b+ Y% L$ WWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
J! A; b4 b% ?, ANEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- ~0 `5 E. n# D1 Hcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!, o, z# o. G# I' F2 s
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the- A1 G% f4 o$ K
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 S& q! `* S, Z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
" e4 E$ E/ T5 ?) C5 Z1 G' E2 v2 m$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% t5 p- i, y) `2 X4 j$ Hpure luck.' L1 p5 F5 L+ K' T: n" o5 |
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
0 |' {+ L7 |8 \' V0 I7 CIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& H2 r' K1 P H3 E1 AThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" w9 J s0 |- {3 r: amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
& J8 X+ R5 y8 j. b: M9 fStreet watchdogs.
1 i d9 r$ n6 e1 e”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ z$ U1 D: h8 `Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
9 p" c' H" w5 r7 R5 l, Iinvestigation.
7 r; o9 G s' G/ t9 `# nWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% W* F6 V) [: [+ e$ ?+ q
four-hour confession.: m; i& B" A% Q+ c& U i6 M/ c
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
+ E/ g7 Z3 p' O5 K, R9 rknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with3 }; O$ h; S0 D2 O
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
# u% v$ l0 l f- \% I9 f0 q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& g* S. _; ^- I1 ^2 k$ u* D9 ]make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
, ~- Y j0 H$ Yin the moment.” ~7 M) w4 O. d/ D" g- f( M
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% [8 U& @( [+ S
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ d- L3 N/ F; _5 B! ?- u
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
. F$ c$ O8 B' O0 L: pHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* }. k% {# q8 h. x9 V" ]
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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