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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 g! i/ c; f2 Y. O. Y. t7 U
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN& O5 N5 i0 h% |- Z$ Y; i
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 e' T# F3 w7 W4 x0 d6 [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 K" a9 [8 H: z1 X' l8 T
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
$ V+ W. g- ]% N6 nbizarre 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.( Y' [ q! t& V3 N) A1 Y" V: e
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 E. ?" j" ~# J4 `6 B. u( i) k$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
4 N( K1 ]+ H7 P+ @pure luck.
/ f! _+ Q2 y: K% j5 a5 W1 _- o+ V”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
% F9 m9 f, Q# T- yIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 C& F0 m7 x7 q- o# k4 s* KThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin* f5 k. c6 h! m: w( g
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 ]* Z/ d/ K \, G7 A
Street watchdogs.
* K/ L& h5 v8 Z) E0 }/ Y) c”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, d0 T7 E" Y1 `0 B- y" YMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ k. `% g) q8 |four-hour confession.
) b) P2 B1 `6 J. L/ KCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ W, D+ m6 G9 ^% r! i3 H
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: ]' k& F- W A0 g, q! E' Q
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
( A6 O/ |, _7 m* @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. r* m- z! L; V6 Umake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
8 L: G7 o: e, T2 ]& i2 |9 _/ n5 bin the moment.”: K. @' M) w2 ~$ L( A+ z' Q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. [7 c) \% E/ _2 u2 C% k& vOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
- i0 {" E2 u' d- fAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 l1 t2 v& q' Z2 q
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
& s4 D0 k2 B/ V& W& x' P8 gthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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