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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% C$ u( D- ~0 E l- X2 n
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
1 M$ ]: _) e; h, V3 pNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" X$ @, u2 e( F L$ K
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!/ J! \! u. c5 c3 H: O
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
4 P! f6 O0 ?' `6 c( d- Dbizarre 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.. h* y$ @( `+ N/ h( O" \ x
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& e1 j$ |1 y. C" d$ \8 c# A
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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9 @* z1 I5 P4 X1 G3 p, R”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers( n/ U p- b8 A' \4 X! m8 D
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”- [8 _0 O% O3 u- J
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 r( f1 T$ p0 B- s& emade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 R4 [1 `7 a: f9 R
Street watchdogs., h ^. `6 H6 x5 X2 \
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,% w- f2 W9 ?- z5 f/ Q4 m/ M
Mr. 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
4 u2 e$ u& j5 ~5 F8 Z6 _four-hour confession.
5 Y6 d+ {" J: HCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! E; T/ H) G+ h0 S0 P, z9 N" Q
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. d7 Y1 M8 e: W- ^
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 E" H" \0 @4 ]3 h! Z”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* m* N, M* a" q- K _' M- P4 ^
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
2 o8 G; Z; @" w7 |2 q0 c qin the moment.”
9 n& p0 J) D' o/ ?% a* w9 q# xIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
+ W% ] B4 d1 A0 r# T1 a" `Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' w0 w, r" k. @ n+ z' d3 Q' LAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
+ M2 \- o( j- q3 I" @. uHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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