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8 s5 S& B, t' A t9 L$ ^‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; x/ M6 _5 Y! ~0 l
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: L% i& j+ `3 g( ]NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 f- F2 r: @) A" G
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!3 W2 Z. V3 P* h8 Y ?0 Y6 B1 E
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the/ O" h$ x$ x' N% C9 ?8 Z1 {: G9 ^
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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I9 f$ t' o! ^0 n: t" e% {”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
; w1 ]5 k N! @”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" L0 ]1 l& K2 |* j3 e
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' D b( Q" @" o, r+ f5 r
pure luck.1 t# y) B6 P6 p; h! _% ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) u. q6 f. p7 l7 i& K, p7 F0 F
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”# _9 l$ }* x' f' t6 n- ~/ \
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 T# b: K/ [8 u% w" V$ s
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
* A% W, N* b+ e4 h) v! FStreet watchdogs.
7 E: r6 c+ {, U( ~; v* E”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,/ `, l* ~# n4 s5 x" ^5 r
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing" a3 o5 y# G$ v0 E; ~" K. b
investigation.% T2 ^5 A5 a. F. M5 R) v0 |
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 l6 T7 W( f1 L& I' Z% nfour-hour confession.
, [2 n0 a! ]" k, N% R: o+ G/ v2 F0 mCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
3 v, e. C v" Gknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 e3 i% D$ {8 H; hknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 @5 t5 _+ ^. g+ a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
/ N, d( H9 w3 ~7 k; }make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 V9 y4 ?: x& E# s7 p; a
in the moment.”4 k2 z. v1 l. e: `5 W: E9 K& v
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of o; M, h' A& U) v/ L) R! t, p7 I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.) ?" K3 d1 o8 m( {- P
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.” n, m9 C" l4 w# Y6 g* _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! A1 \' e( d5 v# L; W# Sthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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