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1 q$ Q8 A" m* N% F‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 H! M |/ P- w
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN$ d b0 ?6 `' ^( {( d) o2 [
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 y, c1 M" S2 e2 T
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" J) D6 l+ Z, L& W, m7 Y% Q
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 N: H* `" b5 obizarre 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.
& b3 s) ^) ]0 u |”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 ` {1 m- i+ D, e- |8 u1 o
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ Z) |# z# B2 x8 `- D
pure luck.1 z. q8 h7 l4 B, P% J
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: E* i/ N: Z8 [. dIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! G( E! r: Y7 x8 p( J, _3 l- aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 \3 e2 [% r* T& }! F8 o
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,+ ?! t- m# N6 r
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 m% y ` n: x! b5 U3 H; |5 P- x U
investigation.
5 V0 ]& G5 V; ^6 p* F6 i& i1 a: p0 }When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling2 c% @$ K0 H/ N$ r
four-hour confession.
! e% h1 x p7 G4 [, a }Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 S5 e2 p! Q5 A& m" g5 k1 y7 Qknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
7 Q! _- O5 Q! W/ z" Q* P6 oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.( b" n) B9 ?) q: p
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( U$ q7 U8 V# c* w7 r1 I
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
9 k+ f) q |/ S0 g3 k( x4 D- L1 gOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS., [! d8 p z1 g3 J! O
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 m& p) u' q2 p7 q5 L
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( x f6 t9 ?3 |( o* W8 X6 I
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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