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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ f. ]6 d% ], l; N t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN# z2 L+ i. K }
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. W. K# o. v( H+ ?% B7 y4 R5 D' d! Xcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ x) y! k2 e# S0 D2 Y) ZSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* g" G! I' B* @4 r" ?0 p
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.
, Q2 k% o- H7 V# ~' H x+ W; z/ e% ?”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- t# `+ p7 u# Y$ g7 A( o1 K
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! x2 \6 c3 _% F: b
pure luck.5 T7 f1 K0 T/ Y8 u9 d
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers x- t X' O" r( x+ r3 c
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% t- |, E+ O% h' a
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin F; s( p( j" g% W1 I* U: a8 }
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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9 O* ?2 `' x* U& u”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ f4 a* h" R( K) M0 V8 l8 d
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ ^! x1 g$ [& X+ ~
investigation.
+ ~* O! d( Y8 V/ FWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. m: Y" Z& R0 F1 ~' W/ |
four-hour confession.
$ [* l' w5 n+ a R8 ^0 ^4 vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
7 C Q( \0 z$ Y2 l! b2 d5 |3 Eknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ k/ X7 Y! N6 cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.2 f' R3 Q+ P& x2 U4 U% `
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to+ H3 o \' o% y. l; y
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& V6 |+ }% D! G3 win the moment.”
& S3 D8 ^/ Q' v0 l: UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 H4 y7 H- ~* n6 d0 _, S
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: h; Z% n) H& o( \/ {& G8 `All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
; D, Q$ N8 h% e8 [' lHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 N9 x7 L8 j- A: W0 `
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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