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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ d# \. {2 z6 M; n3 nWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! L! B5 x C* T9 L! w9 H1 c
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# }$ r+ K+ A- J+ m, Zcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
/ T& @% w& Q& y: o: h+ q7 @Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' e3 m& Y" E9 w! g1 Lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January) y% v; h& D% ^$ B" k
28.
, J5 f. @9 n) x8 u9 J+ V: Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.# d3 _# z0 i( Z# L
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 r" m' ] \1 E; U4 l Y# B: k
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ d6 ?# f) i3 t9 x( p* m5 Gpure luck.8 R- N, S* _3 k# ?
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
( u! w1 n( j# g- [ RIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 K- w9 O1 F0 \+ [
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
6 b, X& y9 }* H1 p8 N. fmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 _+ B) D* `: j1 F$ `; m5 x+ {
Street watchdogs.) W3 b6 k; Q% l5 S$ S
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,4 I. [9 C4 M" u5 o
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! i! c" y6 K. k9 H) }% Zinvestigation.
! [: K" ]. F1 O. p# v. x0 z% UWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling: a: Q! g" g% n1 ]& f
four-hour confession.+ k( x$ v5 K/ C. M2 U1 J0 g) E
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( i% r( `0 a3 G& ?knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" T+ o& L! k6 }: C9 b3 W+ v# @$ R
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
+ k% U6 h8 o/ ]6 H% N7 ~$ A”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to. B9 m, h& S8 M9 b$ \+ I
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 I) a+ c9 J) D J
in the moment.”
6 r$ G( U9 J$ b7 ^2 |& w( tIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! L2 t% S$ n& |: HOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." l: `8 B1 ^9 K+ I1 s
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) N- c5 N0 j7 C3 K* h: t! _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' o( w; _9 q4 V, m! @% p2 H
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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