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0 S' ?$ b- p+ }8 o; R# q7 t8 f‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 m$ x {- J: vWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
$ g: O9 D; s9 J% S2 W bNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" _( F, [ c: @! h2 k! l
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# K1 h: q! C2 N8 W e
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
& M' ~' a" K7 K) w4 wbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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+ v% G2 r4 n% f”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
" {' v7 N3 [1 g9 `”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' s/ a) Q7 }2 G* D2 V$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) |& Z. d5 F$ ?' B! {4 M7 V0 y- a
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% {9 z8 [2 }; [3 K# Y/ _
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
2 n$ f: L. _8 |/ A/ a9 b! p4 n4 fmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ y: f( z: j x4 N* e
Street watchdogs.% o7 s+ f; Y! A$ v( ~1 w2 w
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," E n$ Y# E/ M( X! @
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ P- _; R% n; X, t: n# F1 A
investigation., v) J8 ~7 e9 H; _ P- [0 t$ K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling3 _2 M- c6 s7 ] r; d/ Y
four-hour confession.
. O) e" {/ A* e0 ICarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
7 Z' _" R% W3 ]4 P' E7 |4 m- a5 s; rknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 h# Y0 {2 x3 @* Y* U M7 p) @, B3 ?knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
: y( S+ t4 _: m3 j- j”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) v2 V5 L8 ]8 e, Q) [0 G& t
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 C2 v& z6 |" F. }, i3 r$ ]" M2 u$ B. min the moment.”# ~+ G. O) i- i ?$ y7 z
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 [( t9 S0 q8 T- W/ G* s" l- `4 `0 eOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.( m2 o9 |; k% N5 E' C% y, j* o
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: D* x. U8 F) U" I7 \However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 o% J" k9 {6 U3 Dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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