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2 p9 [( W( k5 e7 N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING! Y& r: _( Q7 J& q* _* U" K
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
A5 X' k, V5 Q/ q7 a& l' ]# HNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 }% T9 }8 O! f$ d
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- w. c! I7 A; G. g5 s0 g5 dSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& P! a- o& ^/ i9 T
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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i3 O; }1 |# v”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
: a+ D; J: ~" }' a1 v7 J. @6 s/ G”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
7 \3 ]; W# n2 m: R3 z2 \1 i- T6 \; @' e$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be6 G6 M) j2 k; U' d
pure luck.
" \7 N% ^ n% m; K2 c8 N' x”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: s3 O" n% [: T
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 q [; [" D5 x% F7 s
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
- ?3 l6 B; C, Y) x( K5 ~made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( D! q' K+ {* c8 G! O& I U3 EStreet watchdogs.7 p; F+ E1 H( P) X/ `& D+ I" C
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,7 G6 S/ W* n3 D2 p
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing& o/ P& M# m: i( i. G
investigation.
3 P* |# V" c" ~. VWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling5 i( f+ u" i2 z3 r& Q9 E3 |8 D
four-hour confession.
/ @9 X V" |" |" ^' t: f7 z5 mCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
! e) d v( T/ {1 A* P/ T7 B2 Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. M: l X2 w, a$ W
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
@! `( S ]4 W" a& e, p) C2 N1 t”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to6 \; O# |: t! S& F
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) t2 C1 v$ K o* t0 w! O
in the moment.”2 `7 c4 L5 j; k: j
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ G) E3 x# t7 Q! S2 d
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.% P7 |# W6 E ?& v
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
, [( s! A9 G6 Q Q7 EHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear) f# r) n o' n$ V8 E1 M
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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