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$ v( A6 p+ v4 a2 X‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 k6 G5 G9 Q3 {. Q+ X
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% F J3 b0 ~0 gNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 m0 m8 D7 h' H F( i. ucharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
; C& ]( w& Q# h' MSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
8 }1 ]' m D4 O& Y) d: wbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# V1 ^0 \8 q. [3 N T$ }”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.5 P1 A$ n3 T, d- Q3 T6 y7 t) p/ ]7 \
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' d- X3 t; o K2 S; P& }$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) j& v/ W* H$ d! q& M) @# b6 p( hpure luck.7 j- a+ G8 F7 J
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
- L% N; A0 W6 s/ jIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& a% Y7 m7 o$ B) d* a( Y. x$ QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" }+ N: V% ~) R P8 ~/ _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
9 K( {$ q2 ?; }- `; |Street watchdogs." A+ g3 K% f8 L* A2 q: X4 y4 B, j
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
% _# d3 ?4 x5 f+ `: tMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 i# Z8 H' W- I
investigation.3 ~! U% i/ R# b# Z; g# R3 s
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ O3 D5 y0 P, Z
four-hour confession.9 w' p/ `$ P7 q1 B
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- v" e! }6 g p' d0 I T) W( D" O! c
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 `+ m1 W G- A' |% Gknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% A/ P! J; \% U- T. C
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 m; u9 q$ p1 M- _( `2 R
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught, O9 N% C' V+ ~0 k# Y/ j
in the moment.”
! [: |8 ]" ]! ^$ c$ a; NIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- L1 ^8 K( a1 x5 ]0 S# uOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.7 M m( e* @7 p' e3 L- j
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”: w, E9 j# K7 y' }$ ~
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 L1 T+ u+ Q& Q o9 V
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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