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- i0 L% M' C; B, m! _, p3 H$ Z! `% S( E‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
" M+ L7 i: b1 q' A, I! O; G6 {Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN1 @: P( P. A- R1 L6 F
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
" I9 K5 s6 p. f7 o1 K+ H8 A. X' ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 d! ^5 j# Z* s4 k
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 K$ ^' i8 ^. `2 d
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 }0 `$ a: |+ |1 t3 {0 a
28.
% X7 c1 j* n5 H”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider." R2 Y% F* m, t4 E7 t. y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over9 @8 }+ I7 ?$ F9 d4 r6 N
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
6 N) M8 w/ ^1 o5 c, g/ Ppure luck.
: T% ?; G" C3 r7 e5 u”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ D: G) r) P8 t" |- S1 hIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”# X2 p$ k- c, e4 o' i% g
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 J8 H+ Q- x) Z* \/ l( e
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
/ B" i N: Z0 }. K3 g9 sStreet watchdogs.
; g% t2 L5 P5 X# D E! B”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! _! U/ ^7 \2 A8 _$ i- q3 _Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 m1 l m9 z. R
investigation.
6 n. j0 B) W6 B' c3 pWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 h; O) ~7 y/ l: E, K, k# vfour-hour confession.1 _4 I: Z: L6 Y# |$ R b! C- D
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
1 j3 B3 `3 _5 X. E5 cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; K7 `" h9 z* @- B% `- h8 f
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' z8 G0 f1 l: I% e# u& {
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* \& b B" b' o4 N \, 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
& d" N* r4 u5 Iin the moment.”
: l& ]0 T# R- p) m4 d$ k/ B0 eIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* O. u$ U3 g! Q4 X$ r9 e+ XOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: [& l7 l w! r' \1 C6 ?, \
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”% l9 D) P/ A& f% @& x2 `
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear: A( `1 \0 B6 X, J: X9 H7 _6 q$ n: l7 ^ R
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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