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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING2 ~- _/ S: o, v" P" W! M4 V" N
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
9 v& o4 s) o6 N; o2 E- e9 DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- x. q- y# V L5 P. ^- e8 Ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
! S2 W" P! Y2 z# H: ISources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 C7 z) d- u' E6 u6 c% ^7 T" D' W
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 ^( ~6 |; E- k0 M" k1 B& q
28.
- o- e C2 y' k. C”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
/ {6 R4 d. e+ x9 ~ K7 G”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, @3 Y6 C: K0 o' S7 y- J
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
; K' t( R& T: \4 O2 F3 kpure luck.8 S4 i1 c3 s) E% F$ |& K( ^
”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 O4 x; ]' n* \0 @/ m1 }3 gIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
5 H ]- N |8 L2 f. U; }: x* mThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 d; |# T9 X4 C, `% Y/ Z5 ?& ~
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
6 [% K9 }3 J9 ^9 E- K4 j4 ^Street watchdogs.
! }3 R: _- m% y$ ~( i”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( ~' H: A! Z2 j" A xMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# h( @. c W- Z1 Ninvestigation.! U6 P3 v9 n; X/ T4 E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling2 C$ q6 y- N' X7 l/ Z5 Y( J
four-hour confession.- o+ r1 T1 Q" L9 r3 K% s2 e" a
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
. a( Y6 ]7 ^5 A- M Pknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with& g/ r- U$ h' ~2 ?
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 A* o) G4 y) n2 ~: u4 |”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; @( q0 m& S! A+ v, C
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* H. Y. u$ w3 a1 c4 Y) k
in the moment.”! l4 {6 u* k! q$ `. I
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ M) g' X" p5 V+ e- |6 e
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 K* m5 \; F! M/ D F
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) U" ?& \$ ~, m
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
" F' M- ]( k8 w1 v' c2 Kthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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