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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING s$ @3 A1 w& }8 K B
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
G) B: `! g" Z' w$ G. cNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
( B( F8 Y# \, A% f) B6 L, ^' D. ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: K4 V: V3 n9 c! I) A% ~8 mSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: v. s, w: c8 Z7 O- @+ Lbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. h6 R& F1 q- }, f
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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.
% n' x$ C" p9 C9 C”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" ^4 m! i' K- O9 E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
1 U a& L* C* gIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! F& y# M0 o! w! DThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
; H4 f* N! ^3 W4 N8 pmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall4 ]' B, Y+ x' h3 M v
Street watchdogs. u( k3 v, F: u! }
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
) d, ~3 }) u0 P5 \5 S& gMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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0 X8 n/ c% \+ C% q$ b0 n# i( KWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ W4 G6 R1 d0 e- q5 U+ P
four-hour confession.6 j6 r" e6 L! `% f# g9 I
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
; q1 ?" C6 [# F" j6 E+ Fknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
|! W# \6 d T/ O6 j7 gknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.+ x' T7 }& {3 v( R
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to6 ]& H- \6 [& y$ D; r% \$ K
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
) G# [* k m' Y cOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. P" g; [! a/ U$ [1 z
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”# J& c: \) `2 x x/ c
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ a$ S |( ]/ M' H8 r( P
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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