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) b9 e; ~" {$ r- v‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# X \7 c+ _+ v# c1 w
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
) d6 d/ V% C7 h3 u0 M% U9 uNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ C# {$ H: J4 k' L: R. L
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!) e% p, x( i' h" ?2 a
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* k. Z5 d6 T, U& @9 L# A
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
( z6 ]3 {! h( P3 w3 c5 w”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& H2 e+ ^, F( L" g! ~2 m& a' T$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be% o4 _( v2 C) w8 f7 n" y/ U
pure luck.
, x6 C6 X5 |, t: [9 e) j; ^, E”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers0 \8 p5 G% k) G5 v
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ @+ N1 n2 G* ]. r2 \4 ~( r
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
1 _+ j8 y) G# \8 Jmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 S0 r K8 |' ]4 m
Street watchdogs.
& m; G( b$ o- ^: J v”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- U/ @0 N. Z4 \& h1 ?: q qMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& g2 z2 a" i/ }; v/ ^investigation.1 L- ~! F- T$ c' t
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling9 Y8 E1 A: E/ P7 \; O" Z+ R" x
four-hour confession.( I* e. L Z" ?/ h# ~; n' ~
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
! c& e; F1 ~; z/ z4 Lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
) y0 W' b3 ~6 N4 c, D+ tknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' y# p4 O' N! ^ L”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 t- b G9 i, r: lmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
/ {( }% f+ l# [! x2 hin the moment.”1 Y$ B4 Q0 g: p! ]; O
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
( W! N7 A/ i4 VOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.* B% Q( T5 r1 M# ~6 p" h8 I
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
6 k9 O+ }- q5 {( u) @; {+ L VHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- |. O) U9 ]; w! ]0 N9 w/ w! Zthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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