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- C8 a( |& R8 K! j‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* L# t6 q: K$ {+ A8 K' \# ^ _7 P' }- sWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
& z- q3 F1 x4 `4 o; }. v3 dNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading4 |/ V% s8 P: \+ d4 T$ @/ h
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
( ?. F' i- \$ q8 I, t5 uSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the/ B% c2 V# x# ]6 o9 u
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 `- N/ O9 u/ p2 b) N: Q
28.
& \3 Q; X) y) q v. m( F9 I0 n4 h”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
) X& q B( j% \, S h”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% W5 ?' L, z. z+ C$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" H! o6 S: S# p* F4 rpure luck.$ o' Z4 i9 |6 _/ i3 x- z. m
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! h! Q: e! \. B5 L# z2 U
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% W% X; ^ o, m6 Y6 x, S" c
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# v* r+ y) [2 \) g4 x- a* [made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# Q& F2 w6 {& z8 l: ?9 n4 D+ u. \Street watchdogs.: w% l; ~, F. Q) y1 q) I$ p2 I0 P" p
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,( ^- A2 R' j8 }4 F# ^- ]
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 G0 J! P: w, P
investigation.
! A, R1 e, N$ ^: \When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling& c w! J5 m% `9 H4 ^# g
four-hour confession.
6 I: @8 ~* X# VCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
- F- R" ]! L7 @; I, t; h+ V7 rknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with- ^# k- F+ C9 w2 I7 n
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune. x! s9 Q& ^# }- e, ?
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
1 Y& B9 M0 V" t* fmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught% u8 S0 N2 i0 X0 _2 L9 {
in the moment.”
9 {1 [& a4 b/ xIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) @8 b4 H: k, U2 Q; I# d
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." R8 b: }, X) ~* b! r8 \- [
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ W E' w- L/ T/ o' \7 d a, uHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- B p2 K1 K9 z7 tthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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