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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
. a; I' T) u$ v* h9 AWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN8 H* f4 k$ I0 Z$ }- U
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ E6 N, v T! R+ e
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' A! ?- x- u+ q2 r9 V4 x! S
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 ~9 X; e. D& l
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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' e* \) V- }) T% h5 x% g# W& ~”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.' h% W. p7 J: M( v: S+ y) v
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* d+ |4 ]2 E: f$ B( V4 B$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' ^. M: A3 J; P0 j* l: X' dpure luck.5 l7 Q/ h: S6 v
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
! B) _8 y' H ^" }Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 t$ `' j+ N; ~' w2 |- E
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
+ f. h) V+ ?8 \! w. N2 Zmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' p; N) C: L0 n! U: C4 E9 g
Street watchdogs.$ d4 O2 I( u' ~
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: _5 r' \2 P7 D8 d! A
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
2 ?, k/ N( N' M. wfour-hour confession.' [* P, L0 m5 M, q
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ o9 T$ y! W7 M! [ N
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with- {6 u$ |' S! f. U
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
. A% a N" H& _' Y/ z1 W”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
# r! d: D4 v8 ~9 A9 k% O3 jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- G1 V% Y, C1 D# N' h
in the moment.”- Q9 h0 v8 A1 c4 ~$ a+ @ f
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 G6 Q m* y: z4 t9 o5 E& q" BOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 [0 U' R7 u- K! `9 o2 n
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”! m8 T& q3 D' B
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 v. R# u0 h- ]3 zthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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