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' ~7 J% X0 [$ C, C0 N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING( p) ]- {# a3 e5 O- j
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN0 x7 M% }$ V4 q, n/ q# o
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ c& f0 t' k5 D
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!, ]) d2 d% k8 A9 N/ q2 @
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the9 n7 t# l; {! o) \* b( i
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 j- L3 w# W @0 k- j
28.
% V. q+ d; Q$ x5 v! W9 q0 [”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.3 v: A7 }/ k0 ~& H
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
8 x- O! _# X/ A0 n+ Y$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be" W# ^) J5 j4 M3 t
pure luck.
1 B6 c# @! [6 v$ d8 k" G”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
7 ~ E$ z H: r( d& G9 MIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”& e6 X' k7 H6 c9 \
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin4 R# t3 c+ i( p. i, A" k( D% \* L! @
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
- h! K, H" t% v. B, YStreet watchdogs.
8 `# a0 y4 J5 o”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: H1 {. W! [5 p6 x- R% o/ w5 h
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing( }. J4 I% j* h; O$ l) F1 Z
investigation.
+ q) T% l9 ~5 G& H* SWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- t8 g' {: @. D& ]! Gfour-hour confession.& m# d2 X0 O4 s6 y
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, h# o2 A. g' A, D( |3 o9 Fknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* q( J |! x+ e5 J! M4 Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 s9 t; m2 c; Y0 m0 E”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% d- W8 ?/ C' Y3 w7 X/ C% U) |
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 P9 Y8 W% R0 ]4 B9 L! j9 `in the moment.”3 N$ G9 _& }* v# R p: N' E
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of. a$ Y% x6 p6 b, Q, Q
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.$ C3 R, o" b, y4 N. ?* N7 T+ ~
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) n& V& \ a* @( F9 ~
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 P' t- x- R: A. a. X& ]; ~
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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