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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ a3 H+ A+ ]8 o! ^; C1 x1 ^" DWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
. r. R k& C. S* j1 g/ kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading# v9 t/ V5 H$ s" h G- ^* }
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
; E- M g/ R0 A2 @& @& O* O5 cSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 Q+ v* v: C0 u0 C' o0 B& ubizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 I) f: }$ L' j. [
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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.
- ?3 o) q, s. n: \0 f, n”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 [+ |: c x0 U4 a
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& k6 B" X4 f9 C) i
pure luck.
+ W- u$ z- p/ s: m) J F”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
% F; @7 t& V$ d6 J9 v$ |Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”" F; O7 ^! q8 a8 ?$ h4 ?
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 c& O8 w+ P" F; i+ o
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
* x) v3 j/ x$ ?, {" dStreet watchdogs.
" Z( h1 g8 O1 J3 P" D9 a( B”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 Z0 y6 j- \3 a# H/ H# K& S; c
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ O9 e# ^5 ?% Xinvestigation.
& N, w0 }) S- Z. I( m9 w% VWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling* H1 h! A0 K2 m' X
four-hour confession.
6 m' f2 \+ Q$ r( LCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common/ x9 ?( V2 }0 i& \3 c1 u/ w% @
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
' T, t! A* s2 ^" }5 }knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.- O: R0 P3 H; l- } M, w
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; k$ r0 O1 e% G" Z! K
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 S3 F0 C& k0 C/ u3 E9 e* Din the moment.”
/ \0 _. _$ Q( M, q, `, M. @/ G/ vIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* F. {. k6 \4 O4 y" W( w
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.) j9 G& F/ f! @$ x2 y* w3 T' B
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
2 D7 o V$ j# f* V5 y2 t' [However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# I/ N( e1 C1 C" ?7 C; Nthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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