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; @# j, G9 N" U4 E2 D# T‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* G- L( J& h0 m% Q* o6 ~2 w& FWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% D8 L% t9 _& t4 D( d2 q$ iNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' Z; f* ^& K1 E7 F7 _
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!. l' ?1 N d. O& ~$ ?
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the0 {0 O1 q6 |# r
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 C, w% p% _8 W/ q4 g" a”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
' Q% ]1 \9 {! @; F2 L9 k. o8 c9 C”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ L& X2 w. {6 I9 r
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
, X! Q$ c' d @5 K! P. o. B- _pure luck.
8 \& y0 b- ~! R& p* |: u”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers( u. T. U A+ \- E1 X( b* G, E4 J
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”& A+ V3 c* D+ L
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
6 d1 [1 b: [8 ?" s- j& ^made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall/ j( Q9 i* K" W" O
Street watchdogs.
: q, n3 }$ M- Z& h$ K2 |. d5 L”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
7 D/ F* [( v# c) }Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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J' V1 w: o, J/ O( B: `1 j& @When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
g5 H2 K- x* dfour-hour confession./ B2 }7 F! E- x. ^# g
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 p3 u+ D0 p6 a- o) B+ L
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with+ r0 T' Q* \" a e# |2 d
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 _5 [9 x# I1 r8 I
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 A/ H0 }) b5 b' v. f6 W) ~
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
6 o0 C3 z/ J" f: e h+ v( a; Cin the moment.”
3 O1 n8 U1 W) S* X7 r8 L2 e- i1 KIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
: X" H+ {! ?, f. M* X, F9 ZOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.2 c7 ~! u6 u+ V5 f- o
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”" F% {7 p9 i) d8 @; k
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
6 |* ^8 q# O2 a1 xthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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