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/ `0 I& M5 @8 ^* |1 {‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING4 E& e# X5 L: f& ]( Q
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
4 _9 N; E7 y) [+ @8 R5 VNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 P& X; T7 o1 N4 icharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!2 I4 R' d* j) G+ E( e
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the; ?7 _& x! C" X. l
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January; C: F z+ D3 m: c, h
28.
- F# B4 H8 D" N0 B- k0 a3 b7 [”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.1 ^9 g$ e3 Z1 R$ ]5 D
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
) Y. C! C- e `. U; k$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' X9 B( }1 p8 dpure luck." z8 u7 o( A) f5 D9 |* }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers" T0 \2 y/ j( I( D$ M8 x/ M4 g& A6 F1 U: i
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 p# H8 w$ Y) r R, H7 l/ R
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin4 {' y$ |1 p: u
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
2 Z T9 ^& K' f+ ~' |Street watchdogs.
* }( h7 X4 y- R( P8 Q( t”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- p( O7 i6 j7 R/ s1 V/ h" R u
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
- g! w+ }6 Y: q8 ^/ {' rinvestigation.
" X/ m% x# N8 W/ i" ZWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. S* E M9 L1 u# I5 K0 M5 c
four-hour confession.% p" |1 |$ f4 y/ {
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 E! J2 I) L- n% \
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ f# o9 u/ y* Z) Pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.2 i; j4 x/ {' {! _7 K% P
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
* ]! N2 @0 O( E/ G2 a P; j8 ]! Fmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& t) u: n1 P( b, [in the moment.”# n1 f5 V6 C- ~& \1 e5 k
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
; R0 A A9 R, u- e C% ~Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. f4 S _/ O2 N. N
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) d3 \! N u. A6 {5 I2 G8 } SHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
+ U! w+ U* R8 J, p0 rthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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