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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 e$ U% j# ~; j7 Y: ]
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! G# A+ F2 H/ w L# }' G' {: Z6 n% R4 eNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' `* P& t4 C# W' M+ |4 V
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 t0 ^8 ?2 Q7 ?- A
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
; E8 l' \5 u) t) J% r1 b5 U- @bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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% t9 o2 t- N$ J”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
7 h8 A& B P: h4 q0 ?9 v7 P& P7 k/ d”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
8 ] ?5 H( h# f* Q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
0 L* q0 O/ N2 V" c, X( apure luck.. k5 H# _, @- P' S/ i" z5 u `
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
9 t3 A9 l& j5 x: D1 _3 IIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& s$ v# T7 _) _, e9 P$ B, g' h% q2 tThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin+ p# X3 A2 ?/ q0 g
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- I0 t) M) O* L0 `
Street watchdogs.
' h; W! D7 q8 i y+ c”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ S$ S! k0 b+ }. f. \1 XMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& D8 P/ P! H! }0 k1 b6 n* ?( Pinvestigation.
4 A( ` l" o; [. AWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling4 Z/ ]. H' n/ ~& R
four-hour confession.
8 l6 B5 m5 @2 W7 ACarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common/ v' R- b, w/ p% c- [( ~
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 V- ?) k5 C* {; K9 \: iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) n5 T. ?% K3 w7 O! }9 s* y
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& V# ^0 r) Z; E5 H; F8 h' S( e4 h4 s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
' Q7 B0 W* }# v" i) }in the moment.”8 z7 T1 _& ~9 _( J4 V- Q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ {, |( `3 G4 E
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.! k% m/ u" ]0 H3 G, d( B# S; ?! ^
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 E2 u1 A9 g# m: [: l ^However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear2 }7 O) h2 w5 p! ]/ w
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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