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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ \/ y6 Y! X2 j+ [& e/ hWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- X& v+ u+ M; \ `* T
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading7 S+ r3 J" C4 L0 O
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!0 _) d0 N+ e! y+ ?/ c
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the: P- E2 B! d8 r o
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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. a! w: O. J! D/ }- S”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.& H# t/ a5 F$ g! ~5 O& m& ~
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
$ _) K5 N4 |: F0 h& |; W$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 a# ~3 S3 r A2 z3 _4 X7 ^pure luck.& F6 _2 t% [* |8 f( C
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ n4 i7 i3 x- s5 l: o& H2 \; \Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. i% K6 z# M+ B4 x l% T; ]# a
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 m, w! X8 f, W _0 Q4 Omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 L" ]& c2 L0 j7 [: k* SStreet watchdogs.
9 k' B9 T; |% b+ ]% M8 q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( A3 A2 W% B& M8 y* ?Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing) B9 S+ g( E& R
investigation.
6 e3 L& x/ I2 u% l [When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. M2 A- a f0 q& u* z5 b5 Kfour-hour confession.
7 [* L- \# |/ C: a' r9 ?7 f8 OCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 z/ X) T9 ]6 X2 P h7 kknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with$ } t8 i+ C0 O9 W
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
9 f) ?) {3 J# o2 v; W& U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 W8 {0 p* T6 _7 ]+ smake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
. b0 g% @- G" T; n8 \in the moment.”
) u3 T* h2 j v, {In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; ] w% o3 f4 n2 F3 t8 ~0 a
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ T8 |: Q( l' ? ?, D5 X! jAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 V( ?. h0 R; c; ?/ vHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; M& \/ b0 _- U6 Q/ v! }
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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