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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf' @4 A7 H% C) g5 `, C2 }
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 Y, h& M/ ^9 t9 d) L$ t$ GWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ f6 D; E" a% m5 s/ A3 h8 W$ e5 ]8 P( ZNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 h( Q% |- s! b: V0 R+ ]
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" ?7 [ F/ V! B: i( ASources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the _6 [% j; S) H& H( ]
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.9 |9 r& ?7 N" }+ Z1 _
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: w* p& J+ k4 N, S4 m( B. E$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
9 U* W g/ h( C5 A* R( Bpure luck.0 o1 v- }) J$ J& g) m$ H1 s
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers9 P# S* C) } O
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 y9 O+ H" G) x \- ?6 B
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 O+ L& G* C5 S: e2 c3 e4 x" X
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
# i p7 |6 T6 S3 P' N2 l# x8 |Street watchdogs./ R6 L( C! ~7 I
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# q/ e1 @$ O* i8 d4 D+ i' l; aMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! F3 u" J5 } G: { Ainvestigation.
' j* N0 f# ]$ u4 e* `8 U8 H/ C4 hWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 y7 Z3 d* \3 e# t4 {four-hour confession.
! W9 H4 T6 ]" [8 BCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( p+ d( _, I$ t( n. ]knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* u' b- k* w2 u: f" `. j
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.. `6 H2 v9 R# B# Y. D0 l
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to2 u9 q9 w/ c" C! ^+ z
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) |0 ]3 e/ G8 T
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) Z4 ~' F- s% j; Q+ Z5 N4 zAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' e9 q7 S3 {0 [7 N0 h" NHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
) F0 H$ M7 |6 j6 ^* i0 O, f. gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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