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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% g/ t& x! b: E$ u& i( q( ^# x* X
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
2 I# |( n) \$ S/ z' X8 y8 WNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 ?# @' [& O1 z* N# r& s2 ?
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
' M! y/ x7 n9 L8 v% k6 [Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the! i6 P. H( e7 \2 X! i: n- N* w; e
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" ^/ Y. z( [3 M* c
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
( `" Z, \# A; m9 _# p”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over3 C+ r3 {+ T2 z& F
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ q+ x! {3 ^5 Y a1 a' K2 w
pure luck.' }* x) P) {6 J0 o
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
' t0 n0 `6 A7 T4 J6 m) B1 hIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
. u. q v; b, C, }4 g2 |4 s; ?The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! B+ v& E( {, r8 l0 C9 b! g/ Emade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 O; A/ ` B/ g" x0 p
Street watchdogs.
: H+ N3 E( B5 n+ P+ O”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. O$ w: A$ U& c3 E ?Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
4 K& C+ |! Y7 U4 e+ V- Cinvestigation.
3 B2 V% f4 s, o/ l5 s/ JWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
$ M! W o( ~7 xfour-hour confession.
0 k, O7 {9 @# x. ~ z l- }( q8 w* ~Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common. A' e; s8 s8 N
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with! n" ?: D! @+ S+ M( \
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 |& M, l. k) d$ U% R: t/ N; l
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to8 R: a8 i' h; z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
' ~/ E, q& x9 ?6 J, U% C' Fin the moment.”
% @6 E3 B7 Q) e! QIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
a1 R, r# c: L8 K! KOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ s0 |5 h: m( Z4 l7 z8 nAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”8 r/ C1 p$ q3 a1 O: t/ s" X4 t
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* `9 s1 s2 y6 @$ y6 gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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