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0 g4 l. e$ V8 {( h1 v. z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 q: X2 m) K! W4 T; Z
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
( b! f1 ], N A4 l" \; L7 a- V# sNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 L$ ~5 K! G% |: Icharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* v: N! T: S& x3 S/ XSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the# N/ H, h p) I8 H: o6 l
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.
. ~; B4 j4 B5 p% C2 S$ C' g5 y”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! ?: D. I% F r7 o! a& g# F5 L
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers e: V1 `+ o. J9 r/ [0 k
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 {+ a% e2 L9 _% @
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ l4 G& E) o- O" P9 O
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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. s! C9 [# X1 {0 C& M( F”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! O, [6 E4 A( E; M
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
1 R. U5 u5 R* k, k9 r4 j8 Sinvestigation.
; `; u1 j( ~% CWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
1 ^# `# r" X7 t. K) J- l9 `9 Yfour-hour confession.% S, i$ a. x7 j8 q1 d1 T) p9 a0 u# O
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
9 v2 e" m y |8 ? E9 Mknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" J Y* k! g% `0 c- z) Rknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.. q5 o! S( v) l1 c( ^5 x
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- V9 K, G) @5 t
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 p" ?5 b5 r( q$ w& n- ?3 Win the moment.”- O: H0 q8 M3 A+ v- z/ a. x
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
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All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% q' Y( L F. l+ WHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; ~3 g6 w& y1 I/ \' l% X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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