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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
& X8 G/ [% x6 qWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! ]: [" \# b6 Z% x$ Z% z) p; x! LNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
7 @5 ~9 ?# J0 `, h% a+ _, Rcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' A, H5 Z, d' P4 S# a
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
$ ~6 U# g+ N6 R. Obizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January, g/ L2 v! ~9 M y- E" q
28.
# g& l+ P# i" S. H0 |8 E5 x( A”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
9 ?/ {; V! p0 X K% d' @0 j”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& O# ~# q- w+ t* H5 o) p
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
; z$ P) Z+ l, j( Q: lpure luck.
1 W6 p7 B$ c- Q& y4 u( t/ O* e; e”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ t0 z: M, D/ |" {3 e8 _9 S$ w
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ @1 N: E' P. [& ?The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* e# z. Z% a4 o% imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 }, h2 S+ L/ s }3 \- q/ ZStreet watchdogs.. |4 P7 ^- o! B S9 `* `) Q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
1 y( P" ^3 x/ K" |. SMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing- L& _) c- d t1 z- L
investigation.
3 p& W- U1 N1 G: @+ cWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling, M& Z( z$ Y; a7 M$ H$ v: a8 j( M
four-hour confession.
" y* W8 B( e; ?! z. g; I. t* xCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( t. _' X; x0 m! d" P1 p! _knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with# U( F2 o/ Q z. W' A. c
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
; ^8 ?- e4 ^$ F6 I; ~6 }# D. g”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
( M3 l6 l' S+ ? |4 G1 B+ wmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& H1 [- i/ W0 k4 G8 x% O- |
in the moment.”
3 J2 L2 w, [" z# Q: @In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 [7 l4 G& C5 y
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 e9 |/ Z" H0 C" d9 B
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”; d' q3 ^- A/ p, o$ W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
0 K! e: Q! x8 ^( ?7 i9 y7 E f) _the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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