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" `# G3 M q* M9 f1 c' X* X7 V# M& J‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 A/ W% c9 d. q" s7 E+ ^; |& N
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN/ L5 m9 U8 U0 s% @& V2 E/ g
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; p, K& S* ]6 Y1 r1 Z0 n
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!) [/ l6 K! j, \% x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the; G2 \1 R8 d: h
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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9 Q; Y. m2 A" K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.# t9 A7 _; ?+ _# s8 d2 `. Y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over0 ]" k' R6 L; H! p: Z
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be: g! ~7 }! S/ y. j7 z
pure luck.
9 _4 }/ p' E$ T% i”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: W N* Z* O" S0 d ~5 i
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( ^: z( W/ J/ u2 X: [The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin! ?. @8 p# k _
made 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,* h1 g C& @! O" ^
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 z( ~- A5 B1 o0 ^7 x1 @. ^
investigation.+ t! o* n4 @- |; a1 Z9 ]; q, J! J
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling! |" g6 N* H; ?' l; w# d
four-hour confession.% [+ j+ z- r* W* b, n
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! L$ T" s# }3 j- \$ ?% ~& Z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 q2 ?0 U- P0 iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 \8 Y) R' V8 S& }
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% }' L% U& d) d& e7 q' m; j
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# D2 |; U4 j" r* P5 MOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.5 y2 D, y- z* C" r, Q& f' b* X) ?: S
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”; S- ]; w/ C" o- F& S5 T4 R$ Y$ y
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- }8 V( f2 C T: O+ hthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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