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" U7 a3 T" Y* O! e( w% Z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
& }7 H3 P( `. ^' z7 fWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% N) g8 W& ?8 y1 h% C2 a0 o8 f
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
2 N/ o& b, z: b; T, F8 Fcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 o3 `, I3 J6 C) d7 k& I# ~( Y% dSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' z8 P% d0 l; n# Wbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* L: A/ b: y& M6 U! y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
# c, B0 A$ J% g9 f) f( S8 d* ^! \# f5 e”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over3 c' R+ {$ y @8 P7 a+ T6 H
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
- m. m* }3 f" [) Lpure luck.3 `* U2 q$ ?' Z, d0 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
4 a/ a/ i9 l/ O6 }+ aIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 u# u- h, I% @' E! S3 E1 E5 eThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* R0 d0 n% P' kmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
& y6 {; {) U( g0 t; @9 \ A) i# hStreet watchdogs.
% f$ e' I4 V; ]( T”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,1 s7 E, T: A6 m+ k
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing& h! ]9 D( P- h0 N
investigation." N1 _1 q0 {3 z% v6 L2 u3 I7 C
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
7 Y# d! @' f+ J/ X& p9 G, |four-hour confession.
$ k! B% G: V0 j# _% ~/ CCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 `1 S# h9 q0 @/ ~( ^# Q2 z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
- ^' ~; Z8 g1 R+ ?5 Uknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 H6 M1 K9 ]$ v9 j( ^0 V. T
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- H* o" {, T% ?0 Q, R
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* C1 T9 g8 c A$ b3 S% _( b
in the moment.” v9 O8 u4 ]- P
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* c+ C) r: ~6 |1 m* XOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! K" j9 d7 o) N H) iAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”! s) w0 E) T; {+ h! K
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' e( z0 j+ y$ o& l9 p5 `the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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