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O% }! q, l6 ?8 e @# t* i8 e6 g‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ s5 p) }! `7 s0 N( m+ nWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ c: O( g: a9 m; E% f- lNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# c; J1 a! x; I7 Z, l1 N: tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!( Q I) d; m' f' [' }, A" i0 }5 \/ [
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
4 ~. S5 W5 Y+ X4 n) @8 p2 fbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 S8 ~+ q) O$ F: g/ Z1 s' N
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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., P1 t& Z; j) s6 N" m& m2 b9 e
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
" {8 c$ k( I M& E0 f, w" Q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& [8 n4 z; a5 P( Y8 [4 Ppure luck.- \8 u! G b% O- M8 M- J
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
6 d& k* K. P2 |0 KIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”% L( R- L' F& ^! l( `
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
; D' o+ R: G1 z/ B. _. b: amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 F" @% C; |3 J9 ?
Street watchdogs.: a# \. S) U0 z# l7 U
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ U. W9 e! E, f! @& A
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& {; ]" f+ c6 b3 J' }+ |+ D. Yinvestigation.. A0 w9 ?( x( J+ p7 U2 d0 e
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
3 G3 T! j0 {3 ^8 G$ Wfour-hour confession.# p9 V" }2 Q" i5 A z) U s1 T
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
$ b0 V: p- l7 h {+ e* v1 vknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with/ l( b, r' V3 J' s' b: M
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 R0 N7 H8 y- o" T& J”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to/ h8 O* k' q7 r; U5 d- C6 d& d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' |( G% v: b b6 S% B' M9 w
in the moment.”8 M& g3 W+ \/ M* k& A
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 U! \2 C# K) i+ P# g/ {1 ^+ O
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.+ ?5 M* E! \- g
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”5 B! n) S) q) N i* v. \' J" H
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! D( N% Q% `! M. ~" [; }the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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