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9 i4 w& U \5 d7 L: m9 X" z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 ]/ Q' R; t: h$ ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
& b" v9 M9 p v5 L( `NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
0 f( D& y0 X% }charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!6 {7 z5 @5 K( p, j- S6 M* |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' |- y' ?, y# X/ f
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.4 \' a5 J& Q; ?8 b; u
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
7 V) n: M+ n3 B5 H5 o$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
4 i; q! h" g) Mpure luck.
' _: y9 }" q) c9 O$ t6 a3 m”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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" ~& ^, o# n0 J) V# t9 Q- ~3 TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
4 T. L9 k& d2 m% m' E' U1 Amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
4 M. C# J0 t% v) A8 a+ E& R/ cMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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) |* `+ L2 j" }When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common2 t: q% x) e- m% @; b
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 d7 j7 x1 Q6 k ] L
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% O! t0 t# C; i% ^$ v N- x* d
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' r7 x/ M3 y3 A4 \9 F
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ x3 m9 t3 d6 i& e7 `
in the moment.”% s$ E% ?' ^8 @2 i' u; ]/ [
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ Q/ c! w& ]$ A6 b: k
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.5 R; @9 L2 ^3 r1 i
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- ?9 P: e8 z& ?3 K0 c
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! C$ {9 f+ v5 k/ k$ c: X Fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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