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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* c. ]% L1 B2 K
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
1 n- D7 o/ N4 P1 U$ i* Q7 DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
" I- |. A2 e* C5 f: g1 Tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!2 |5 s" f. b6 I7 e) q5 r
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ V3 u3 c0 a; u2 [+ N+ C0 i4 v
bizarre 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.
- _; l# s9 }2 V1 L, b”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over% Z3 Y# ^: |* d% Z' {
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 c+ u2 G5 n- u( s" T4 I- B! E8 |, p
pure luck.3 ?0 D8 h/ e/ K9 y* E3 ^! p5 ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
5 T/ u2 [# s7 s3 h5 Y: HIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”6 |2 O- ^* q7 V" u: t
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 A2 J8 u5 d9 k3 }made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" |4 w. U4 q- _8 a, N+ ~5 b/ KStreet watchdogs.$ c: K- q }; H/ S L! s7 V7 Q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
" m: ]7 z& m* g3 G+ j. i$ @7 D& WMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 ^0 j, f$ _; V
investigation.
4 n2 ]6 [' F/ C- i* q8 i; _8 FWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling4 g. X U! v% h2 h2 d. l& D
four-hour confession.
6 F/ d, d) c) e# l. T/ x8 ^4 |1 PCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% p+ ^; x l5 k$ J% a
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. R/ j; i) M9 m4 H* L% E M$ Tknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
6 y: v# |" M$ ~: K; ~* y( Y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 b- M4 D# L9 h. pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
/ ]' N' E+ j$ Ain the moment.”3 {9 \! r9 v' ?! u$ ~, r
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of( b5 i* o2 R1 o, H4 o) ~
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.+ N4 p* ]3 ?' i- | a5 S4 x9 X2 J
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' E" \+ \9 i( m3 Z4 r4 F% W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* `' C8 }: m% C! e, e8 Z2 L" O/ I
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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