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% t/ P0 y5 e4 O, @+ l9 A‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% M; s% C! i3 X# _) i, `
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- P7 O3 Q" T/ P1 h2 Y1 `/ O
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 b; \9 [) Z# _" G9 F4 ^
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: G4 T# O! x7 ^6 u4 H/ c& h/ d
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) c W# l' S. Z( c, }
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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1 h- T+ z5 ?' b7 k5 S* J& _”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
$ Y7 V1 `4 y6 Z4 P”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over( R% t, l2 O0 T! ^6 W: \
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be8 I3 X3 J) p7 B. @8 ]5 ~
pure luck.
- E M8 {" S: c”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ p0 R, i5 a( A# LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”; N5 c- _1 k" \+ j) Z( [* ~
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
4 I& g8 T S. t& p4 _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# c, ]& g% i4 i! @% x! H: f1 bStreet watchdogs.2 L' {0 k. P: g) J+ Z, q7 ?
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; B6 @+ B* ]% O
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# S- d5 p' U& d: O2 Z$ S
investigation.
( P0 q/ O) k# z+ CWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
4 P7 T" m" p) J" kfour-hour confession.# [6 k0 \5 K. b3 i- ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 S% F$ [, x( Z$ n8 P7 q- n0 [" yknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 L X1 }& C* M5 u9 o% P
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.* |) o R% \4 [6 i6 p! j9 \
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; F) E! z: P$ r: p# B
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ j. b. _% A. d# G) `3 W" T
in the moment.”
! X" W) l. u8 N( d, [In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
: q0 S- k" a, ^5 e3 tOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ t" g O- E& W$ @( FAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 e `9 b/ d2 [- G
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 n) K: {2 L, g. c. a* ^% p" ]the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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