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% h" F: |3 g4 ?7 e8 | E: C) T7 R‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
& E! z8 `. Y0 V* p8 i; E. QWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 |9 `6 `! m @) ANEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 Q$ r, P b; @1 R j+ [charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
. G& \# H$ l, o J8 G4 D% ]Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" P8 C7 m, R, j9 F; ^bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.
! c, H% D( V$ ~" d8 j8 B”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
6 i8 n+ ]2 ?& }( ~4 W L, R$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 }8 s& ^, N) n+ H9 P
pure luck.
5 M4 w3 H- c0 p' a4 [' J7 z- ~& j”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, R8 `( K/ A3 ]8 z1 C N& [/ ~Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
. r6 [4 ^# X4 K7 x* YThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ _6 c' D" a% L" E: E$ p
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall3 t. C0 z5 M# Q8 T7 Y, x
Street watchdogs.
' X8 S$ L& Y# o1 _' l. `' P; r# ?: j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: ~3 k) x- |( B6 F" ?* G: o
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' P9 ^4 Z( Q' M0 J3 M9 U
investigation.. _8 @( c }6 k6 |2 _
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
2 a$ \; T$ y9 A7 k: Q" I' efour-hour confession.1 o* U8 j L/ Z' |( z
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 [* p1 o; M) S
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 ]6 x% A" c% g! v" dknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, n7 x# y* ?; v1 |$ k$ x”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. p% Q6 O4 o2 n4 amake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught7 D8 K9 @( b0 Z* b
in the moment.”
0 R5 Q2 T0 U( H& R1 b' r4 B( ZIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: x- y% I8 B3 ?1 p" ]
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 i+ b! [- I* v* O
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 m* t4 i' P6 H8 L" T6 g
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 o7 S! S& U1 c! C7 Y# \% L
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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