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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
/ t/ v, m( p3 W, C: @$ s' a! ~0 |Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
2 A; A: I Y0 j, FNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ _* Y4 q# _ u6 p8 D
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% ~# q2 [3 L4 K% [
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* L2 |/ N# X8 ~ h
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.
3 N9 P* W- V8 \/ x”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
9 A; _6 y, K0 ?+ j( D; y$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 [* P' z* C) I2 M+ c! X$ ^/ |pure luck.
3 S5 \% W/ O- s- H0 z”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers- f0 F7 A1 ^: ^3 o2 A/ X
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" I/ l ]/ p; o; E6 t: Y, uThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin$ O7 V% p. V6 o8 R+ X
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
3 ?" N- a2 ]) K0 p- d/ mStreet watchdogs.% G- S8 N; h0 H ]
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 t" \- I, _$ g6 B( c! fMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common, ]% q9 @" [% `, I' F. u$ s
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 M8 N0 }# \+ r- ~$ |' t
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
9 z! ]$ E( i- y1 @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
8 Y+ g8 v9 V8 M: {0 u, ?& W2 f" ^make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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/ [7 R$ d* h, k2 x; t$ a4 {In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% B1 X" B: F; S5 p1 [
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 S* E3 o0 J2 N# r# c% c, QAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 l6 [5 Q: Z2 d; d$ w+ KHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear S; ]; W, U% k- s2 B# Z0 F
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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