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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf" y1 ?5 E9 @/ h1 P9 C6 x
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
" E! s5 B! v% h$ G1 L1 TWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 l3 F& L+ i2 m8 q5 U( G" t
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 d. }7 J1 u9 N) C) s( P# z' s
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: M, t8 Z/ G6 ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 g% [; F# {7 w0 U3 y; R& ~
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January s d; {0 B) I1 X
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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.- @. b' }$ s0 b) G$ F, Y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 `. i8 K+ h$ T/ i: @
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be6 Z' o: O: {9 i
pure luck.1 W# r1 X7 m% x7 }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
4 ~: n4 _4 V2 Q5 q! M4 c3 x9 q9 NIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# q1 I4 |! G1 @3 O5 SThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
' \! L& P0 I9 L1 Vmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
8 R2 W' z( p* Y C8 q4 H1 JStreet watchdogs.
" U" L. k0 x% y8 r: m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ m4 v2 S. D1 Y; o; l j8 k$ u1 N
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, ^; T, N7 @ K. _5 m# |% Oinvestigation.- c/ F( j* n! s1 z" Y3 O
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 e C4 ]1 U A) V! ufour-hour confession., t+ F5 ^( Q; l8 t1 A
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
0 g" f' s2 }, @$ g" Eknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 `4 `. C0 i# @4 {knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.6 R1 Z- l( {3 T
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
* ~7 o& J8 Y% E, U) Jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ r& B' T- B1 H! |0 {
in the moment.”
1 b/ k% ~' u' o# @- }& vIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* \: m+ V2 ^! M1 _ `
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.+ H1 Q) q+ f5 [1 X# y
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
& A4 M: M3 o8 G7 s. N! iHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 S+ K; J, J- e# c7 Q. Z6 Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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