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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* P( h/ G/ k/ @8 D
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
, f8 D" s& v8 o6 B2 j5 dNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 H7 d4 H: W3 b5 Y
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 U* G" U/ H8 K# b; J& ?/ {9 }* ~0 L
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 |$ C+ v3 E+ h& q1 L/ \
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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! M }0 V* G! i( h”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.* J3 W& E, m, p+ n9 b
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 \" q8 X4 c9 |# k/ P3 M* _: d
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& u. W: y! Z0 f' H
pure luck.
0 N3 M5 f3 M7 E% M& F: X3 j”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers# W( H* e9 O" s6 K# q! [2 @& ?
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”$ m" x8 r# ]/ o+ j6 s3 P5 o0 S7 c
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! [3 i- y% C" z8 U- u. hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 @$ l* ~' B( f; H9 T* I. E$ n
Street watchdogs.) U* b" o4 S# F0 y4 V7 M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,+ C8 u0 A0 r# n' K
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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/ k i: P' q3 J8 g- S6 VCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common6 l' e0 o& R% p( H& a
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
% c( Y' c: i2 t; Nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
& c& ~' k& T& d+ k1 O”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 ]* `2 ?: g; N+ x: n T: |3 Hmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught, R+ T* p/ p+ Z0 A
in the moment.”
/ X% I M$ n8 |: {$ U% }In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
" V8 s% X! B% ]7 h- O, A( J" K3 WOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 j; X$ y9 u0 q6 o" A @' IAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”. j! t; _6 a6 J/ O
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear$ H5 X% `4 I2 ?% _4 @5 W. L
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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