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. @% {) J! J( z/ Q. H: l7 S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING5 X: N$ e2 j3 |# L0 }
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN) r3 U9 c$ m2 T8 j9 N- n, W
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: R0 E: d! F' h, Y, F9 ~6 E
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
+ _( D6 C$ h) n' XSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 w M6 ~. e$ Z* S- d8 o; L: mbizarre 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.+ D8 N) F& r9 G$ r% a }1 u
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over1 w5 B0 ]+ ]2 B' b3 t* H
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( m1 H: W j8 E
pure luck.
$ d5 ?. p# M# ^+ 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- k4 U$ M6 D8 Z) d# J. V$ w
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 P# p. Z0 |0 K4 RThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" U1 h5 n# S& qmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall" T. w5 a* t8 _4 T/ i' G9 D
Street watchdogs.) o. S+ w0 {/ m U+ m* t1 O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ Q2 s/ Q. b2 ^5 q6 p+ EMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing/ m7 U' ]. d1 P O! C
investigation.
- U6 z- }2 [9 U9 A% uWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
9 C1 ]: V3 q( v5 h" N( g9 Jfour-hour confession.8 a9 l8 E1 O: v4 x2 g$ _
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; ?/ q; ^& `7 k- U9 U
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. i1 p$ n% d+ j8 j/ D4 h0 c
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.! U% ^6 o8 U- t8 W, ?) ]. N
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
x- o! [+ E; _, _! pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught% }( C* @6 M \& `! Q; C
in the moment.”: e1 F/ |+ t! }% `4 w
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ j, U4 t, G5 Q# eOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ h: z" q: B* ?9 vAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
" I6 D* E7 |) [- H3 C+ S& ^( s8 mHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 D/ j9 z: n9 s1 b. c) s$ v
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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