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1 I M, W2 r" V# h1 O5 @‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* L( q8 V" |9 E% f1 W/ U2 J
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 G% p7 D% [" t% i* M
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 z6 K4 ?/ J( a% l# e# f- h5 i
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
6 A1 z" N0 ]# H" FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
- Q! u$ T4 `. c( M8 x9 |bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
- O7 ?$ Q/ K; ]28.
, {% Z- ]& X [2 e( N& F6 p3 t”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
" S1 `) J6 q& f1 M$ N, `”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" i* H: i4 g7 J4 R
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 l6 q% D. t1 O v( o& s
pure luck.& J5 G/ V0 p% S: J
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
; i/ H2 f7 `2 N- [" QIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”) u9 i F* `4 B
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 w9 {( X" v1 Y2 `" V5 u/ @
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 p) N% L0 I o: Q: g% l8 `
Street watchdogs.
* Z, k" s! z! r6 C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# b4 @6 K2 y* f- m) ~2 JMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 a5 X, [+ A$ u# A2 j4 r6 Q
investigation.. a/ d9 t' r- M
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# w1 O) `4 f* M5 h
four-hour confession.( w' K2 j- k" ]! [. s$ _
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common5 d2 O v# J: {, h+ f* v( ?% g
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 c# ?9 ?/ W% e% \+ Y$ Tknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% D2 B2 U9 T1 Y1 e0 `”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 H" O ~ Y y
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
2 A3 L! c* B/ U. h; U% }0 j2 sin the moment.”
% D$ { W; O$ [7 JIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 {- `* [* j4 V! d3 G- s
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: u% A L1 x5 V l+ s9 ~ M8 t
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
D, {6 m; w& r8 lHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' d4 v6 k' h- V: H( c% [6 O
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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