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; {6 H' r7 k$ `( J/ z6 K‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING0 b# i4 U& a3 _8 |: ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN/ G. z0 K7 Z6 Q
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 ^. ~5 u- u1 J) k' Z" `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" y7 y- L6 ]9 n( f9 _Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the5 B( W. j% F7 w$ O/ m/ P) _
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.
7 P, C; O p" B5 e4 @, \& [”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, J% S7 j6 r2 [7 x& o2 j
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be. {5 b4 n" T9 D0 I2 g. r4 v
pure luck.
5 Z! b, Z5 z8 `- l' j; e”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) x- N$ y8 T9 J/ t- m
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
; Z+ l m, Y: T& z9 ~+ X/ O8 N- QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin* `, i6 R+ @; Y2 O; q5 J
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall( d3 S* e5 C" ?1 _( A! R
Street watchdogs.
+ \/ V2 l4 u$ j/ k”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
& V4 s* O) U" d0 E; Z* F2 W. QMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' n+ e8 i8 H* @1 E' ?
investigation.2 n7 R. z% D4 ~3 @' k* V7 q
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling! N4 b+ w7 F: E. `6 A% }
four-hour confession.
# q. F" }0 M' y2 [$ |2 O# S3 @2 oCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
. O8 z% X9 I- P1 jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. w; a5 x7 s- e
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 W* f5 ^9 ^% q% Q4 W, H”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
: A5 ]2 V7 ~* X& rmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
6 h" ? C$ |* U$ ^4 Y6 Hin the moment.”/ r& U5 `8 x+ k
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of0 c* p, N5 x+ {4 G+ i4 x
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# K; `: e5 q. y$ q& j
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”5 Q2 ]- x. z# o" [* J9 c
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear. }; T; t0 S# z0 E2 h
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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