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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
' M9 q5 \4 z, _6 C% e6 zWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
4 w3 k- v3 i5 C$ a( B& N; kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 b2 o, @( m. a: F6 \9 |% X0 `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# P* B2 N0 V, V
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 x2 C' ~$ b0 N2 T$ k8 h* h: mbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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) X7 u, @* }5 ]* M' k”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.) o* h2 M, D* y$ j
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over4 T: \) w0 b2 \' Q& \4 ~
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& E4 q0 ?& O W8 V2 R; Spure luck.. E( U6 z s) U& h
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
1 q! v% a: j# A- D3 \6 h4 v; dIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
+ h; }. l% s5 S* QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin" x _7 w) E! u; E* t3 m
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall3 |$ u1 V+ z! ~/ a- j; q, ?
Street watchdogs.
. k. S5 o1 r( c; A: @7 ~”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,4 `! Z: `5 _ p7 m& G- U( _
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 a$ Y% M7 J# w) l+ E. g8 ?: f' T6 u
investigation.
4 i5 C5 N. l" _% }% VWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ [- ?0 r. @$ L6 `( yfour-hour confession.2 n4 w1 F" b4 u( U7 `
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; f+ k! m# h! B% @$ w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ o1 F3 m* g! v6 T J+ V- x# v' yknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
2 e9 p3 p1 }- k; `+ [& Z”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
9 Y- S0 ?) Y+ G P) P& Cmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
, Q. O6 {1 @% x3 s' D. Yin the moment.”
' c% V# o, H, n& A: @1 B( _% \In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of' F. I( |3 J7 ]3 \7 q5 s
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 G+ o% K' n# U/ c* z* JAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
1 _9 w! `7 z& U, K) PHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 t0 [# P% G6 \7 q' W. zthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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