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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) E9 r# a! ^) NWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
) d z7 f+ _3 C, SNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; k/ j8 B8 \; ]$ D
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- c6 Q' {3 j) |Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& s& ]- m$ u1 t; w6 C
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.$ O* Y- p+ G* M
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' B) ?3 V) s* O$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& I/ h5 w0 c& n$ @. h1 }
pure luck.
. n0 j3 A( y* Y; Q- 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
/ k# c9 ^8 x M4 wIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( M' V6 @; n7 q/ U+ b E* R& dThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 @% [, o" ?4 w& a' c/ q# b
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 ~7 Z5 \6 i( ^6 E" p
Street watchdogs.
6 z5 _* j7 T q: Q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
2 V& I1 w: U8 |Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
7 J' l+ W1 a9 I9 I2 g8 tinvestigation.
6 {. m4 C3 U5 H. c+ T5 R- I5 wWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
& J1 @) @* e6 w) o. o. Lfour-hour confession.5 T4 W" t: _5 k v% c. S
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
+ o+ @' j2 l( i5 P8 V+ G4 X$ `+ Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" s0 z$ F6 P8 ]; i8 E
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
- H$ N1 }+ W. T' b# y6 d* _”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to6 A1 {1 d" B9 x1 G% p
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- v, H& u% g# e2 k$ w! S. C) S
in the moment.”) @: C6 V \3 z, y4 A
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. D7 Z+ B+ d- i/ c$ C& QOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. ]6 c0 `( [" E/ u
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”7 {4 B: Q! V1 Y/ e- T$ C
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; l$ A- z4 w. A4 l Q
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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