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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
8 O$ c( j$ W4 w; `Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 n6 }( O' ], _6 k. \NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
5 w' i5 L/ |# s: N/ bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
! E) Y$ \. h8 C5 @/ ^Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 b6 @$ o* X5 W8 Gbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January( ~$ I0 B: O0 r/ m2 P- |* @
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/ ]( y& N& k. p8 n3 B% l7 Y5 a”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
+ |) X7 S7 X" X”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
. S' Y8 f& L5 ~6 `8 g6 E3 Q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( V6 r( }9 D6 Z, n4 y. {3 P
pure luck.6 e% m8 A& N& ~+ w) v5 @1 `, }1 ]2 S
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
6 p# }) R" A3 H8 O& I- }' w/ S" xIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”# e3 g! |! {( v4 k8 G
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* u- ]# q, f. a9 u2 ]! lmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
: A) {0 @. f w- dStreet watchdogs.
$ G& ~2 f+ `% c! `1 e”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, h" s. F; a$ P7 v/ _& E; y2 S) `
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
. L0 G$ z' {+ Q- ~+ rfour-hour confession.
) g$ z O" F+ T/ U+ O; P- ICarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* Y" X7 ^1 _% G- z6 t# S4 {5 W( sknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 ^9 E# _: K5 s- l4 ]) I" Kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' S3 A& c) H j* ]”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
5 F- M" Z7 M( Emake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) z, V3 z5 S: G7 j
in the moment.”
0 }8 C# u& ]1 }1 R$ fIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% L$ B% O+ u2 K9 f: S) K
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
9 K; P+ {* |9 O+ R6 |9 w0 S2 A5 U* LAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”% M/ I0 @* Z9 _: s, z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
$ x; i8 u/ J- m! N# Gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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