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1 e% ~( T/ ?6 i‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING" g( ?& Q8 e: v% a9 _8 Z7 ], h
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; u4 {% I' F5 G# v2 D/ }% X6 I
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 U- y/ m6 q6 V4 R/ Q+ J
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, `5 W5 D( O" a* ~: DSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 `' K! W. j8 y# U
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.
; `1 p2 x& j% u, f”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; ]% Z, v- i4 T0 _. V
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 b; ?- L) s1 G9 a- O% k9 c
pure luck.! D. J5 P- |* a6 @4 e
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) a: s. C) d& S. c7 G q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. K) G2 j! r1 K4 q8 n
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
, V. f0 u: T. ^6 W4 [5 C# qmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
$ Y# n4 ?3 S" N8 |& gStreet watchdogs.
) G0 m# t n# Y O) _”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,/ x6 @5 a" o) A2 F! B
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 O p5 o) L6 L& m) w, G( [
investigation.9 A6 U3 U) }* H
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
, U& u5 j ]5 v2 w- q8 O; e' ]four-hour confession.% c+ N! `8 T, Q! M4 u7 w' e
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common0 O' q- j9 `! @
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
' D6 L! W) G6 a2 g) c9 U. Gknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% W: V4 {- N9 d7 ?& c3 p. Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
' e( @# H* Y: P7 L3 Kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 c" i* y( w* s& V) jin the moment.”# ]8 D1 j. u& p' k( Z. G8 G) k
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% K' H o/ X+ j
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.- Z7 E4 P3 C9 A6 ^6 A" J. b3 M
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
/ c' G/ p0 G/ I [. o7 SHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% w2 v0 Z; N' H5 w9 L {% }the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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