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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf4 R) i) |5 ^- V/ b+ {2 C2 T
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! A% Z* @- \- r3 y0 lWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 r( I. `" `) F9 y1 t. v F VNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- I! O$ g' Q3 _; [' q* n% v5 ^charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!& Q+ @3 l$ h- @$ R
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: e: M( H) N+ X* m5 f! s$ ?& _, Z9 C5 tbizarre 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.
) A; A3 d& n/ c8 Y. N3 T; S0 b( ~”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over4 ?2 ]! K7 h2 x! i
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be) a8 m3 X, l: e" t- k5 G9 C* J
pure luck.3 E2 y8 C4 W$ x9 f- ]! 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
3 L; `! F; [' X& bIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" {" C1 |" r h' R0 |4 W ^The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
) |- A g& u$ K8 r, U0 bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
! W* L6 _3 s( D; mStreet watchdogs.2 q1 `# d6 T6 z* ~& [( P
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
8 L! g. k9 L( @: [/ `( rMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. `$ M. w; j4 p
investigation.1 A8 h" r( ~( r4 n% X! ?
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
; |4 }5 \9 U8 [; @four-hour confession.
! o$ X- C0 g; [Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! e) d; f0 N- c" s* C
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
R, n! }: w# [& _knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.! B+ W- @# l. f
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) A3 z {' p/ E4 f, H* z7 ` I
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught; p% E$ t! z( i* @4 m" t
in the moment.”
+ G j% o/ z( T; v3 D- rIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; T) f" \9 z+ Y8 i1 r6 L
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# p% s/ G+ t7 }, E+ y
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”; y- C' C7 Z4 C) T, \; O! `! Z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear# W* p: L }. |, @
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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