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- U1 w! |/ Y P: h n. W‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING) E/ j& B8 I, d
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
& z3 \+ F* M6 U) Y) \0 SNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
" K9 ^- {2 {; B! J' H7 c% ncharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!6 @/ s) d4 Y. r4 o# {5 y, K0 |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& L& B% V: @! R r a$ r
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
- g% M! E( I% B% w$ B3 r4 \0 Y- Y j”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! Y, Z- [& t8 n3 @/ s4 D
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be4 I: b% v# {& w$ P
pure luck.+ S: Q5 z+ I& W. l4 \, O
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers/ X" J/ a+ J! H% o* {# N
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”9 }+ d/ V# {3 c. {% {" ?
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 y$ z% z& V( B6 x4 p/ h4 }1 Xmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall! N# V) U, V# u0 W1 M
Street watchdogs.+ ~% q! ~1 F) P: n- @! v
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
7 e& o5 N4 w5 @Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ r) o/ y, Y* I
investigation.
5 |; P4 |: z: N2 SWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" p! m2 K2 p) K& kfour-hour confession.9 U7 a- e6 s4 M* w1 h
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! w8 m1 ^$ h2 a' X% {+ R: v4 L2 n
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 N! Q& S6 n( Y( S5 W; |8 iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.! P ^2 ?) D& f; z8 T- x
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
v' Y, o) K7 q5 {1 Q q1 wmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 a7 ~6 Y: ]) Q) J4 g* X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." ^, ^3 D2 j( F! h8 ~4 Q
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' U$ f) P, U3 Y( }However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear! D, c; T" |& Z0 f' o4 H% I! @2 g
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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