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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' e# b& w9 t8 O0 w6 Q
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
$ U' q$ x/ S6 K2 l6 i. P# G$ l- L% @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ H8 I& Q8 @ J1 ~" Kcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!( N l3 S) F1 ?! X$ v- R0 U- g' R
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) D7 X0 b7 R3 R2 i h$ R9 X+ C* Y
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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: _+ L- G+ @) s4 L) a9 J* ]8 L" g$ y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.3 N, p6 t: _/ \+ L; j
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over. h) H/ F) a: d" h
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 ^+ I/ Q2 E* H. n+ z. `: r9 Ypure luck.2 t j& [& m! R. x7 `4 ~6 Y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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4 a: s2 C/ D* O0 YThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 O2 G6 F$ Z2 A4 p' w
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ t6 s: j. k1 C+ NStreet watchdogs.
+ t, f4 Z2 v2 m( U- m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,) s% _: [& d( [! p
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing& |$ B, y i. o1 k4 I! o
investigation.
) R* k t0 l6 v8 WWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% U% J/ l( t! x7 K. P
four-hour confession.
( l8 w" ]! G' I% ~9 y1 \6 gCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
! a# C( ~5 k; |2 A. ~/ a6 lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: t8 U! d8 u3 \+ h2 m+ D* v: W! H/ s
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 A5 J1 k% d0 m
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 k& h3 G) i% i9 ] W
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 c! K# b7 a0 uin the moment.”
. P* ]; |2 ?( [9 x: d1 J0 LIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 V: ?! h' t! T( t& k! }
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ X. k, J1 U* W8 w; t* I& w; s2 @All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
2 `' o% a) G5 j }1 h8 {However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# H5 M4 T+ f5 p0 c1 S0 x3 T
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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