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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 ~5 r, E; S- F: s0 Q- A& N5 T
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" K5 d3 Y" c% M) S0 t0 R/ QNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading, ~5 z4 ~& Z' Q9 R' |3 H! }
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" h' u( @% B/ \3 z) L' dSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 Q5 K) L) E2 r) {: }4 O
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.
6 R# m( O# n7 q8 D x. R4 O& V”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% U+ V, ^+ @( W/ p; L$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ g9 V5 b6 j- {, G0 q$ P# i
pure luck.6 P& F0 R1 a. G7 u% y5 Z
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers, U( D1 O' Z8 d! a0 k
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% t: n) v/ [5 KThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! f8 I. l/ ]$ S3 C+ e. W0 @/ p* Imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
) a) Q: ^* @6 fStreet watchdogs.
$ V ~1 }' I0 m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
4 C1 R+ C! B: C( S5 F( [Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! j# Z- |; f) X {. _
investigation.
6 R- P( B* q/ r5 _* n0 S$ g5 e8 {When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ d" |+ C6 Q; ^; ^$ J. C3 ufour-hour confession.) Q! g7 E5 {- G& @6 {5 i% c- k* H
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common( i) y3 }9 ~7 r; j' p- {3 r
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with0 M7 M3 }9 v' X3 v) K1 ?
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
- |8 }( h- F+ a) x5 r5 c”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to. T, Y4 e, H& J( E$ s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 b d4 Y0 Q9 N3 U# C' u
in the moment.”
/ o/ h7 i' J _. z5 _1 U0 t8 u% ~In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of9 m* y3 z9 T% z, p9 o7 x3 j* ?4 U2 w
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
( }- g) F: @2 J$ K- T) G3 d) YAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 N4 P" g- `) W# F7 [) w
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( t# ~7 p' @& D/ \ X1 h
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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