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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ l% v N, n$ ], t ?' C# J5 K5 R# RWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ U% x2 g" a$ k$ ~
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading* B( |+ y- H# T) x7 F
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!3 `; K0 n7 ~* y/ Y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
* ]& N7 R! b$ J# gbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January) c1 Z4 T; G _+ ]5 g2 e1 F
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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.7 G+ c0 n9 W( p9 [
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& X! g7 G, E+ d2 m8 e1 l
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be) l) ]4 T% B+ y* Y9 W
pure luck." Q2 `: j8 D+ ~" Q$ n
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
8 v* J/ i6 n% D. |4 SIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”( @( \$ Q: |' S! k: u. j [
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin, I1 Y9 ]% U; m9 ?* B B
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 S% W& J. k' G: X% ZStreet watchdogs.
3 ^2 ]& E, ~3 n% m5 U”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 [* e' }5 y6 P; ^" q" j7 hMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
d {0 j* T: e _( @ s& Xinvestigation.- B7 U1 q0 o4 u; B9 L0 J
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling! c! H) `4 K' {) S& {+ w) P i
four-hour confession.1 X! h1 [6 x2 {' U. K7 S
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" P# o" Z, Y6 p/ ]% Z3 w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; w, p# \6 O7 H. h* B0 G" l& c
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ w+ f3 }6 u9 @ `7 x7 f: a/ @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& R. c n' M5 z& X: [make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught( \9 o8 o* ~. j0 [
in the moment.”+ u( R0 ^+ t& e' X
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
) E0 D+ g# j4 K2 T. z: vOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. A4 \. I6 p* s! k0 x7 g9 T
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
+ M* I: r+ R( M/ U- V* IHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* G* d- t3 z! R/ }the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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