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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* E" m* O5 q$ r. H2 wWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN' h8 H$ F& t3 P# j
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ p8 ^8 w5 \0 V, @5 p
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# A1 I1 z% S" J$ v wSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ Z1 `' n/ u- C+ ?$ h P/ G' ]
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January* |' t5 D! h2 {
28.
0 j5 `$ o! f R. L( S+ c/ d4 Y”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.0 z/ j E4 s; a
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 f" w) w' s; }1 y8 V) A- k7 x$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ ~6 ` g3 h+ g! a H* D
pure luck.& {, _& @0 N/ g- ?1 q' U+ J) k* 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. u3 c! E/ n. r7 P
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 T0 g+ `4 k* ^ g0 z1 W, {/ v9 A% B, BThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
' X D. t V, N' w, Ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
' }7 _- Z3 Z) i* n1 X: b) |( `! TStreet watchdogs.
% r2 e/ m4 ^6 ]* t8 i0 k”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& G& B6 v. P& C3 s! Y) s$ S
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
2 u* k; Y3 w. [investigation.) m! c! c2 X2 ~" N
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
8 b! S, m# v& X8 {# Xfour-hour confession.
& K4 v6 Y* C! ^- [. j$ t5 vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* ?3 _, \4 W2 N* }knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( H7 V) o0 [2 L; @( Q& D, H# zknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.4 S% D' y+ i# Q4 N; e6 x
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
' R; _% v0 b: J9 Z1 z- C5 ~make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught! [. q2 \7 N, x0 T5 R8 r
in the moment.”
) ?/ r* d9 T9 Y# Z9 ]/ tIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 I& N! w- ~% l; D! a4 E& JOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ x- Q) u9 l% Y$ o
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
9 e! F" Y2 C3 H, E$ j* A$ x% R9 ?However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' K" z l' l. }6 u& Othe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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