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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 K9 K3 B0 h2 r! k/ f. R2 w2 f: p
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ o; }/ R Z6 G# g5 e) }NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- x# {- p$ \2 F9 ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
; ]$ i" t8 |2 uSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& Z! H5 W6 ]) b' |: o/ ]( g1 }% H
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January y e4 O9 d6 ~2 {+ k8 ], U9 V
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' h1 a2 c* X) R. c- h7 L”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.1 i( Z6 f3 L- p# B
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* R! e. V) h, d
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 c& { G. o% t% t# Spure luck.
' E) l: o+ |; ?4 W$ l”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
' X- Q, V0 Q$ R/ N/ LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”( ]1 |0 ^7 f5 Z0 V" i% ^& b6 E
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: A. @8 R4 ?3 Pmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall) C! k. N% V3 S! M. h2 q4 p d7 _6 a
Street watchdogs.
6 f) M( |% H) X$ N”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,3 R+ P' J; B: z& Z# |
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
4 s; x0 M; m4 `! Z! binvestigation.% J1 m8 z* j3 B9 u. K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 Z6 y* \( l7 nfour-hour confession.3 g; d& K) t! i8 v8 C- z* U% z
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
& _8 D+ g$ O. @! Y$ H3 J8 Pknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with2 S) @6 b n0 z+ i) F( V0 _
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
; @; B: |* Q$ q8 i”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 c) G' W- O7 ^3 r5 Q* o5 e" @" Kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
) c& T- a1 Y- S2 t% g2 i- bin the moment.”8 e$ L1 o# y6 C1 {: y1 e2 j7 s
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of7 B; B: e2 d% Y) k8 n9 a0 D
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& P6 ?: k( z* j$ E( `4 t; q$ Q
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 `6 z0 B! u4 V0 w. b) _6 PHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear% W& j6 k- A: M- i' O1 A. P. j
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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