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+ ?6 B& @4 q+ f‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ G0 s% {, B' P4 y4 x4 b( ZWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
9 y% A! x2 j& f9 c& `NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
; W1 F' i: y5 S! Mcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
( v: Q3 t" w k) v3 YSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
& J: |+ S9 t' Abizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" P/ i) D2 o4 ~) J6 P: _% R/ C
28.
/ l2 a5 a7 l9 }0 r( _$ w( d”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.$ _" b. l$ V- \ S$ R8 E% E
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% R$ l) [8 y$ C6 u& s: \$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be# `& |' M6 O% H: _
pure luck.
8 C& X+ T; I) D0 s”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
5 ^8 m# l3 j9 {! z& V0 uIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”. A" a- C3 U; j2 q8 s
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# M1 g! j" }7 Q& omade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall3 c* Y0 e! ~* F
Street watchdogs.
5 @9 h- l& e8 B/ T) b9 \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! ^5 ?+ W& ?, Z3 n0 H
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ X# R7 {& V) W
investigation.6 p% Q" }6 |9 N$ M
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
; N; }3 \/ h# _9 ]" a6 Y( t5 u5 m3 Rfour-hour confession.3 Y1 R7 ^# R: K. e+ @' p
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ V# R* v0 V- w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ V) d; W8 L6 mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.+ l# }# e/ s c% y1 n6 _
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( a, |/ O6 T& _* g
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught6 `8 a9 s0 k) n! t' t+ j" c j
in the moment.”; W0 E1 N( ?+ [" w( m
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* c5 x5 X% {: T* U0 Z) ]0 U3 eOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 t9 Y9 [( s! Q! rAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
. l# ?. @( F/ z4 k: D* y! W; g" `' WHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 i, ]3 h) @/ ^" y/ |* j2 d- y
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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