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: Y2 i( m0 t. a, o3 r‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* F7 U! [9 E6 I) d
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 W G% N8 {# G" e* Q) m
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 S o/ h, T1 t& `2 |charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
9 x9 Q; G% n& H" C( ^5 Q1 X- PSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the6 O4 |, B. D; g3 k" I
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January# J( U" F$ a: j. G% l' ^9 ?1 Z N! [! g
28.
8 r4 `4 y) x8 O/ D* |5 T( N”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
* W. B5 B* s- ` L( ?”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# s- a( [- j, C( G' P( A% g+ Q& ^
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
0 q! v l2 n6 z* B) k- @" M4 opure luck.
* A* \3 u( ^ p. d, a”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
3 ^/ b! `, Z& ^- oIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ X# I7 K) r8 \0 P' g2 z
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 `6 D3 W- z f1 m- m, t! Hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,# R$ K! s; y6 H$ r& z9 T
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. u5 h0 t, b& Y7 f8 v) B
investigation.
' Y, j7 ^* T; g7 i, DWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. r+ _) u7 f9 M# d c5 E' Sfour-hour confession.
( U _3 ^3 W/ r3 X; D2 b: |* H6 JCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 B$ y' J/ |+ t
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: { E. h: B5 L; Mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 ?4 k( M+ ~+ Q% d8 m
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' F; b# S1 r1 O$ L3 U! U* P4 M
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- E2 Y% W) V5 V _( o
in the moment.” y( s# [7 ?$ P& a9 j1 \. H! V
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. d/ b3 d4 f- c0 [Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ A4 G- D" d3 b& I
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( ?7 C* _8 c( b" S
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear5 v( n; ]) _2 V$ @) |0 w
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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