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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf: ]& N9 a$ q; y) }# y: B
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
. K; @; ^3 o+ X9 u2 \Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 X: C( ?. `$ j* \9 x' z8 GNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading) c) j Y3 c* s9 f6 w1 X; a
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
5 }) C: P# v A; K" {Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, |& D- b3 M+ u! n3 {4 [
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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. K& |6 y" S' b”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
) J: Y! ?* g" z! S9 c”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 ?/ X4 s+ P0 S+ X( a. ], Q
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be, |4 |# {% q! F
pure luck.
& @ t$ J" q5 N2 x. r”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
0 D" a+ t5 ]& S. H9 z8 IIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”* U0 D6 a" x6 c3 N: Z
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 k! j6 Q7 b, d! g: B9 f
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& M4 ~! o- N2 L6 L
Street watchdogs.
, c4 i, Y! m1 L& L4 L”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
) a0 m1 T2 W: P! A* [! ~& MMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
( \& o! ]& @9 O u0 h' dinvestigation.
: E; v( y6 ?9 a; SWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. u" D) |! y0 ?$ M4 N8 ?
four-hour confession.
$ R0 q5 o6 i6 D, A' @+ H) LCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; u5 L( v9 P, Q4 a4 H
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ T% P4 d1 v+ [& [! aknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
l+ v/ r! Z/ |8 i”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
: M5 [9 S" l7 k Gmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
% }3 ^$ g, c, J3 Gin the moment.”
e% F% |- | I7 ^ u/ e7 XIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
9 Z* Y# U2 n1 p. O3 r/ O+ ^, z9 gOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' x7 u! P0 g8 l/ h4 T$ pAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' d. X1 n! ~! t0 d$ n
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, `5 a" Z+ C" L: D
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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