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# O/ n+ f, `+ ?7 K‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 ?- y5 ]% P0 s/ h" `$ W" lWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( x% L& [7 H7 M% f$ t8 D; m
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ b9 @6 K- n" X0 F9 e2 x
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
/ ~9 V7 M1 X f$ HSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
% C- r* S9 I9 @: Tbizarre 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.
8 x& G9 r* C: y8 S”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% H6 ?, n; V0 n6 ?8 s0 g" j* K# I4 c$ M$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be+ V4 [8 F1 n8 b& r5 A: P
pure luck.
( V4 h+ e# P. F0 \2 r6 ?”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 Y4 P/ J6 G7 e6 g% E; D4 W
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 S3 q' N6 y4 L/ TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin! [, I3 H8 k( T8 ~1 }* C. G
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 ^" @0 Z, X; u8 ]. O2 R3 F4 v5 k6 EStreet watchdogs.
$ w' A. }( d& `& x”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; L# J, O3 ^( y
Mr. 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 mindboggling0 Z( c9 V% U9 }
four-hour confession.
) H) f$ A+ h! K8 V+ Y- v% C3 WCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, D$ r' B: c/ W6 Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( S X" k" A" I# @$ `
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ W' e5 S0 Z6 ^" Z& w; c9 t”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, M7 }& X; D+ 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) s5 X; C' `; |7 Q$ p C9 R
in the moment.”+ [# u7 ^* X! E) n3 K% d% P; m
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 C* \( g; _# k# |' O
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. q) V+ j9 R1 g- eAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* _' {! T' m; X
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
! y, E; J5 [8 Z) ~4 X; Z4 [5 ethe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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