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+ U: r$ z' r! c‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING- { \# {5 q+ k2 E: |: y# U# d
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN' t" u& V' q( r- O( K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. N& h0 Z# \. N+ v+ ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 K% }% ~5 [' S; |Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
% w& I, v% e* E- s4 }- ?2 abizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 w) \) n: r3 J: ]# L
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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.' O! M3 l j' w
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 M, L/ s8 x- ^- A" v
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 ^. O' G6 z! T3 ?6 s. ?6 ~pure luck.
* H% }/ X3 Z8 w4 Y: `”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
- K3 ]$ f1 E+ ?' _Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ w( S) h# L3 R4 F! f
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
f9 h1 i( W4 _4 q& F+ I& Imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# _3 ~2 Z- t# B- vStreet watchdogs.5 H) M9 y2 f$ z# k/ F5 z
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
& X( L9 }+ g/ Q7 d% q% N3 }Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% d2 j( J; P+ \, q- F
investigation.* V2 b! G* G4 G1 L2 u+ I5 F4 B, u/ K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- m+ H/ g% b% S& ~# M2 k" g
four-hour confession./ m$ a# A7 V* \* _4 o
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common: i3 E q0 M/ j& _* O, ^ C
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 S' ^& ^: o: U3 y4 O) nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune./ t& }/ y0 y9 `- M: o0 F _+ ^
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
M3 C# b. T- Z. l7 s+ l+ fmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' A2 Q1 I5 h0 q- x: X6 C7 n
in the moment.”( V! W! C' h# c' N
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of, l2 J; c5 W& _& f) U5 n& i
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." e! k& [: j3 T" V; C
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) q& ]' N$ n5 _" |
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear4 M- x" B' c) W1 H8 `
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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