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2 _% ^4 f/ H' N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING- A/ q; g3 _6 ]0 j$ T, Z
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 x7 d2 R$ t; r8 l; [- w% m/ q& HNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading5 K( f6 ?- c) }2 t& i
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!, {9 k' T( X5 P. ~& m( S" t3 ~6 j
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* o# q9 Y+ }$ A( @% h7 {6 ~
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, S3 G' F/ \1 f, Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.' O# g5 n0 j5 p+ M2 N! k
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
/ J$ r; J; R9 k& h# R/ J6 r$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' N+ p: a5 R2 s
pure luck., V- U. }% K( k" H! v# D2 D
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers' H0 ~" T5 ]; o8 k" T2 \, W& O" {
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
, N8 g. z, n; H% f0 [/ h0 KThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin3 C, x! Y, x2 `/ h# \) q
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,5 A: D6 \, t4 i4 A) k, W
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 mindboggling0 e3 ]8 V! q$ Q
four-hour confession.
( S* ~/ N8 [) K; qCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: r1 f5 ~/ w* P% m0 }- Y- ]# zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
' `% O5 T& R9 c' C5 l6 R/ `' ~6 Kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
f4 O' P1 h8 I! Y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
3 O! l! j+ k9 G4 `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught: T4 z+ A7 j% _4 U; F0 ]" I# ?
in the moment.”
) m0 e# i( q2 e# O! T7 ]In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
' l' B1 S& [- t0 U# j- UOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.2 M) z) \( N0 [% B0 q
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- |4 V1 \' f0 C$ S# WHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
7 g. i2 B# ^2 V3 dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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