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9 _" _. H, {/ W7 x0 m1 h3 S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' F" b# p/ G6 I
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! t: B# F) z: q$ w4 C9 LNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ _7 [' @9 A! q( G! L I$ ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
7 `4 T3 K! S. I; W! w. O- RSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" v j! M) b0 |4 b1 lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January) o. ~4 ~5 \7 ]; D% m+ `0 I [/ t1 G
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% N0 O, U2 n% }1 ]4 _”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.# U7 ]8 n! z( r C' [. U
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" p, W' z# r% \& ~- P! a
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be2 h) _1 K9 j- R7 I: @- E% ?
pure luck.- U. N; s0 x( y, b) g1 J4 p1 Y* V
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, ^4 H8 d. O8 [& V0 c8 r$ qIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
' ]# _- J# f" p L$ K7 J8 {The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
- Q0 Q5 \) l5 k; W3 W' O. Ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
3 C7 s/ I4 q3 r' YStreet watchdogs.% @. k5 d0 D5 J
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( K9 w% g! G2 X2 E+ @3 p3 |Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
8 g0 W- ]& m8 }2 E/ o& ?investigation.; {$ j& i8 w! B0 O: x' q; |( x1 {
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 j* m Y% c& M( s; ^7 y$ tfour-hour confession.5 u# A% v5 D7 r- J4 u. C; ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ X8 a+ C- c4 k# h
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' Z. T0 b) q! [8 l' \; m
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! x' B8 l+ Y8 t6 ^5 _' h% z”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to+ p/ h% o D/ p% I
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 i- m5 r2 M2 l, k2 R) S Q
in the moment.”2 n% W/ s' C, K0 a2 F9 c6 w
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ ?7 P M/ T1 `/ ^8 H
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 a- R+ o! s/ w, \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”$ O# t0 j3 @0 E
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 \0 m# x" j! t
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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