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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING, ?, v J0 `! A m6 t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- t+ I" ~ w! Z' _# H: S( W
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ s2 N5 \9 t% C1 m; v- `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!0 H" K% ^! G; _' v7 A5 ?- s' t
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the0 q7 ?) x4 j: R2 p
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January! L! Z- e6 G3 Q$ U: f. W. a
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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.
* F2 f' T2 O/ g* Q) M”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over h, s d( H$ A7 x0 _; D3 ^4 T) _
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 r* w; o9 j. G# e; b# |pure luck.5 t7 D* N1 q. a6 R
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 y, I0 k5 k/ C) p
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
5 f7 Z6 O! ?1 r# l5 J+ l6 b; ~ oThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin* A) c2 s# W. U) D Y
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 Q" k, L! u! z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling& w; x2 @% O& p3 A9 @: v
four-hour confession.4 A6 B7 P$ Q2 v9 e( w) j, v
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
% y$ m' a1 K1 g. x0 p& jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 F5 f7 Q7 n/ g# \* n5 @9 r6 g0 Pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
. D/ R% O7 e$ O# p" U- O”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to) ^8 }0 P# `2 d& X9 D
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught0 M* A" k. R2 q0 h6 ]
in the moment.”$ ?" |9 w; S6 y# Q2 ~
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
; E) x1 P, Z2 G w4 VOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ V; d8 S. p5 {1 D# ?: A/ @All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
6 [+ R+ \8 Q% Q6 i8 m7 g5 s0 ]However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
/ C7 Q! n3 @) T {2 wthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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