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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING( W6 f- O- o- R$ S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ u6 \, s0 ]; d2 r, FNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 Q' q" q6 i; K1 W, Bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
9 C: G; E6 m& L! i! k) tSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the j+ j7 |# B+ l# B5 r0 K& s
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January6 V7 M) R: k% G
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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.
# f$ |% k, [9 l$ t8 G& }3 N”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- p* _/ B4 O# }9 f8 s% M8 t
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be s9 R2 q1 `9 X/ A4 }+ H
pure luck.
; ]/ e$ j' }) G2 q2 @0 D”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 p3 O. ^& R3 m* L# I6 h
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
O& D0 m1 P" N) A! @The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin' z2 T5 f" D5 \; f
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ N5 ^ Y+ l2 W& WStreet watchdogs.
" q+ I( c3 ^! a”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
( u7 Z5 s/ o' _# L8 _) oMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! `1 ^% ?# M- N" D4 iinvestigation.
/ P. h9 f1 r3 ~! \) S; ZWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling* c2 ?. ^, Q) h" @
four-hour confession.
; i; w" ~+ E j9 e7 ACarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common7 x8 Y( P( H' g7 r6 r6 x) k
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with$ X( r9 V. h) |& M# I
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% L2 R$ h( g# f9 k2 r4 {3 I, W2 |. y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
" y" C9 T6 s( H$ X9 b5 i. R& `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 _3 B2 ^3 j& |0 N* X3 n! u
in the moment.”
3 f) w3 C( F* ~( aIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of( W! {+ m. J0 R
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." L- }. K, X# Y
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ ]9 Z1 j \ B0 I: _; m8 X( \However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear x: R6 G% Q$ Q/ l" f
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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