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! ^* j, A0 N2 |$ [, E- A‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING1 S, a0 P7 y+ D1 H, k
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN M8 E/ \, e4 B
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 s% j. o2 Z& X5 Z# @7 k
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!; c9 h% T( F4 z3 E! ^( t
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
/ y2 @2 a0 y1 l9 X- C, e- qbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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; D0 C0 }% b- A" F) C6 m”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.4 k+ G* U$ c$ S' G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- M* a8 `1 L2 p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% Z! ]# {* _ R' `3 w* X: a1 _" L7 Fpure luck.
" Y- W6 _/ E+ }. l9 R4 Y/ f; A”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
# o p' h2 s M5 uIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 m- {4 {# s- [* U x, CThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 ~; x3 ~2 g+ H( U% V/ W9 _$ T, pmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- ?+ b5 o$ O; H% v! R: H4 e
Street watchdogs., \$ g) t+ q7 {8 m u8 T l
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
0 Q5 y! q8 E l0 ~. }Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, A' ?8 x! j$ u" h$ ~' y1 }investigation.' b) a8 Q0 k% ^; i' M" C
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling4 D- P0 {0 O* r5 j% }
four-hour confession.# h9 U* z% Y1 j( e( V' C
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 h9 u. i* [* Q
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
7 C3 j% o& Z! ~6 r0 j5 Rknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* d3 d7 v! H# c, E5 @! W: \# c”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 b7 i: Z" l3 P# Q7 I9 `, omake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught. y! z N$ l" e
in the moment.”
6 D: [2 u* T( z: J7 n5 XIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of$ Z! t( `8 w" [4 Y1 ^
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.6 U& N& R+ C) F V% B
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”4 s5 z' x D% y Z" B. t, B J
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear5 W3 Z3 F7 g' a, V% b) f, |
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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