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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING" T% b1 b- [; [6 N; g% o
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN2 c/ S, v; ~8 w1 d4 `% |3 U
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
: _; a2 L5 G& t; fcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# R/ r7 k& ~2 w0 j
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 L& d% v: \, j5 Rbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
- U% O# t% c8 Y: Z; U28.
* s6 t5 L6 P! W# U" G”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
- n" s9 d; L# M" P( _1 Z. `* J$ Q”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% o) O( `6 D- d, F6 G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' L7 K+ L' g3 l. b t+ ?# ]
pure luck.
# x5 n* U: c2 C- B( t: \”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& G9 y- l# K+ @) x; d2 i gIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 b, l0 I0 W& D* o7 NThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: [$ Q. A3 S( g# O! \/ q1 R- Amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
) P( H- Y7 f% `* E! S+ W$ wStreet watchdogs.
- l# W: U4 h/ T3 ]" L”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
' l9 J8 `. @2 i3 ]% Y; w, r; X& fMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* J* m* }; R2 S7 V2 K [* `
investigation.
3 c& b2 D+ y L/ s3 xWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
& F; T a4 [# l. `( J4 n# H+ x( ofour-hour confession.
% V; B! w y o' H0 L6 g% hCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* n3 V7 X; s7 Y/ g6 \
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ E6 K0 g, ?4 mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
6 d3 y5 _' e- p' M”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 Q) X4 C) r4 ~ M
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& P$ e# O2 e3 f3 b& U
in the moment.”. d" M) {, U" h
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
/ T4 Z* d: e, ?% O' B, N# T8 hOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
8 j" q( D$ @* `0 w. _All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* w2 ~) o, G# ]
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
$ x& I( h9 E3 e: Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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