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1 L0 o6 X( ? d‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
% Q, h6 m6 H# X$ @ c, G1 \Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN" ^$ w7 ~8 N% W1 Z& E* U6 b: K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 d3 ~- R2 R, W* _# ^3 }" Tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 @+ H9 T7 ^0 R9 K, W
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
& C( S) m( z$ R Cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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4 j" C4 m& M% @( v1 B/ S% q$ H”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.; Q g/ ~$ _4 b
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 N8 n* s) I" t4 \ b
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be" V/ i( r' A- ]' g, W1 q8 j. l
pure luck.5 J+ N) O% {# M0 S1 M: [* R# h1 H
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers9 ~6 p" V* _' U* x; @5 q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”+ t. r* B. W0 H* B9 Y& p6 Q% ^
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
) H3 [+ r" `% V0 F% m3 Dmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall( S$ ^ \ M2 l
Street watchdogs.! q% D7 H( V: L9 F6 b( S" v B( b
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 y$ X. H7 V7 O6 ?; x
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
9 ? M% u6 {5 r7 y- |( X; T3 Vinvestigation.9 [. d' n8 V7 B1 t, b
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling A0 R' w4 K2 B: U
four-hour confession.
2 m7 n! w& c, i. K( X- WCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common/ ?5 n) n- P t8 S9 B# n1 a
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 G! {% X2 H, Q+ c9 V+ P
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 I; k2 v6 r( w2 u( L
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
, N1 W. v' @8 V* x9 e, D; rmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
. u5 I: s# F5 D. uin the moment.”9 P: j R/ F: g5 |* L
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
E" }/ Y4 d$ t4 h8 NOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 i' v) q& d' ` V$ u
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' D0 y* V# {3 h% @2 [However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 }/ S! S1 y* p% D/ d$ w" P
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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