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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING7 j. h& C# Z& C7 p$ s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN: m) X6 Y# N: c
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
* Y' x* p c% I. mcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 E [2 U% h" j8 e# H
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
8 u$ K1 Q: b4 l3 ^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.
7 k4 [& V% R& {”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ J W, Z( W/ z& x0 ?; t# @8 k8 t
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( L0 I8 K3 [ Y: D% g% L8 G& m
pure luck.: D; y% i& M& G. g. `+ C7 h' R" o* {( w
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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* Z- q4 e7 C- e6 BThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin" ~/ _4 x. ]: m1 ^2 g' ]
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall) w7 [+ E- [5 c& j9 c; m
Street watchdogs./ Y3 @1 Y: }+ n6 b7 e* z2 ? x6 {
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,+ j0 N! }2 A$ r
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
5 `% n4 M: F0 o" j% u; Iinvestigation.
9 _0 B; @4 f& [: F! b. {When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# }& M9 z3 a3 J+ i$ x$ H1 A B* ^: Q! p
four-hour confession.
* D' @. t* r$ X# |% iCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common# u( }, W. }0 z- y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. g/ U$ A( X1 T7 p- \. v) n) G/ uknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune., j3 p+ u2 E' i
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. a1 C/ |% \8 ^) F6 t5 o# u/ ]0 ^make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught$ G8 `; I& Q. V# K; s; j0 O1 ^0 k
in the moment.”
8 f3 G( p3 j- w# `In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* z. J7 `4 f8 ]7 A$ v U
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
; {7 m. g& C3 E( y/ b# ]All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
2 q2 x* W. d0 h, aHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, C2 B: ?& Q `) \% |4 P! d
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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