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+ T$ z I, l4 V4 S _' k‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) f# A1 T, W& ~% b2 YWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( `- F' M' z; Y& g* C) f, B+ y
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 G4 e* ]. y! D1 L1 Y
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
0 t, g7 M# I& [' pSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 p+ \+ w$ {" o/ S8 Kbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January6 j7 Z: Q* J, ?( | d" d: ]
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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., c6 y) d3 K; j& S I; O9 f S( h1 V
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; D0 n/ c6 T# _( o U* Z: V6 w1 `5 C$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
* A6 c% F; o5 o, {9 m/ {7 wpure luck.0 X. ~: e- W3 c, T s7 H
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
3 R9 v7 o/ J& L0 n" T6 _7 r" pIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" t" D+ J" m8 j* v ^The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 `! D5 X" Y+ v6 q) j& O" u
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
5 y5 X' S$ X$ `3 A- M' b& d: CStreet watchdogs.; H5 o( S U: @; S8 g3 v; J+ |6 a
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
Q: T2 x5 f+ V0 s: D$ V8 l3 _Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
6 {# w& T3 h/ q9 m7 binvestigation.
Z( G) d* v- QWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling7 v# ?4 `+ L% [& u( O& M3 b
four-hour confession.# Y& w% t# o- f& v! w# l
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common7 y8 R- r6 @+ y/ x
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* O5 J* U8 l8 h$ [
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 \) Q& S5 b( F/ `9 g: C6 s; C”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
/ b" Z* L( m* R* vmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 G$ G% a% c4 c" R7 X% din the moment.”: u, z" g! v4 d s
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: E3 g. t) A# _
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.$ _. q' ^: a4 [: Q8 G. t
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
. Z$ Z1 L3 V% C; X5 t9 SHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* v* [" ^7 u3 P5 J/ v3 rthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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