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, [: \ I! E+ K0 r0 g‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 ]* U7 ]8 `2 }7 rWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN3 t m) \( ?& z' d$ p8 o7 Y$ l, z
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; N% `1 V) H$ b2 E) M2 \
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! X& v5 k9 l' {& k8 j' _
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 g9 l! a R, j8 E+ A f$ J+ j
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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& |0 {9 v1 F1 |”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
3 B1 |6 C+ e1 n& E5 |”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
# I" J/ B" b+ t( L. J3 S$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
5 f+ m/ U8 n' Mpure luck.. r! E8 r& |4 v& m: B# R
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
. z+ ?6 ^- B% ^' DIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”( I! z( F, R: Z0 r1 a
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
+ j9 f" Q" @. ^, a( @6 K' D) J' [) Dmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
8 M- d: J- Z0 {0 l9 EStreet watchdogs.
! W( F" |* S8 J" E* ]! T”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,. F* s+ x/ w. ~9 L$ U
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ F# t0 i7 t0 L6 I$ ]investigation.$ @0 I! j" c9 b# `4 N5 H9 e4 c
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling; n- W9 j# z) D9 y8 z
four-hour confession.
1 s7 @0 x$ P1 G' c0 J4 N0 b0 jCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 K! ~) ^, v; c/ ?* [knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 ~. @4 G6 ~7 Z% B7 E; d
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 {/ U* ?' u6 @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 S5 [# S6 V3 N. K) q
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& n4 Q* B8 |9 b* r+ E) L. G/ t
in the moment.”
3 v, l8 @; U" w1 `1 O! L: lIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 |/ ]4 i5 L% }9 i5 r
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) x3 _' F& s6 q$ u0 n7 e: Y- c3 ~3 D( kAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, z: c7 d5 l. u( z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear7 V0 s0 H |+ N1 O7 S
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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