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2 V: @! D# d- l) V, R% I‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING( _6 j7 a2 k3 Z$ q1 k
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN2 I# k1 m( h3 E
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# g: b" t- T9 U2 ~2 _5 |charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
) }# L, V' s# a( l' TSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' S+ l; l$ o2 I% C( ?2 i) b- Pbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. _$ P! Y1 g7 O9 E. [( v- z
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; D* D* c4 C! C$ f+ Z”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
6 V* }. {/ E8 C”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* p1 o. S! w7 G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
9 W5 l, g0 Q O1 g. a" c; ?8 rpure luck.+ a& |8 f. ]+ Q: D$ k
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers0 `; [! K' L% H, R) S$ e
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) u, [" [! q" S. _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin& w3 q L* Z" T- [; A7 Q
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
& u, d! v$ A8 M5 NStreet watchdogs.
# D. z5 x: |6 O* h”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,8 n# h! V- o7 q) Q
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing2 I, I4 i1 @4 v! z' R/ u& t! @. u4 ]* K
investigation./ t3 j2 a* G7 m8 V$ x m, y
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
9 R+ S3 |5 P- r$ b8 m+ afour-hour confession.& q* u, X2 M7 l: |0 k+ ]( E& W3 R
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
. O8 }/ ]4 d- n( yknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: k4 B- N t" O* j3 c$ t1 D5 oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! s* g6 Y% g, x”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
* }7 _( X1 b; ]2 ?: r" vmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught. e. P9 v7 B8 y
in the moment.”
% |* X) m, L3 k2 |In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of& m9 D( G" ]% B( E5 Q: y( y
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.7 w! D4 x' x5 `+ H+ {0 Y% w
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: R! W0 n4 F4 t) T7 B* qHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
* Z ]" l( I Q& q vthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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