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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
9 Q4 H# _( l5 G0 Q& H5 r% V$ zWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
2 W& y& C: N+ V; x3 K0 W w; ZNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading( z) d$ R) E+ p% ]0 I) P9 D9 q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
7 T2 c- d2 n, qSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
2 ~ [7 U" X) S3 xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January8 }$ \# R7 R3 O. x- B; }
28.
; P& k+ Y% U4 z3 I3 x* u”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
7 ^0 e/ c& h/ t1 q”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& A' s) L* J3 ]9 V$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
9 a/ h: B9 r' x# Kpure luck.
7 q" q' s7 H. m' z9 Q% I, i/ f$ 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( B" j8 O6 A ]0 G& _
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! E4 {% d. S, aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ e9 b3 o* r+ Z6 F: z) m+ ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
2 j! G+ t) d0 SStreet watchdogs.9 d' y, d% t: n# V& B, a& Q7 \
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ v: Q' t/ N& c/ i4 x; d4 G, h/ GMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% O' [: r/ I+ Z9 K
investigation.
; k* b( h" O- k$ N, [; `7 iWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling( K/ N0 U k) S5 z- Z2 M
four-hour confession.7 f: [7 \# Z# J! P' f
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; B8 `6 F( m- z1 I8 O; p
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with+ q5 O& H( g: r2 h2 X
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' w5 _) j C7 u! X6 E”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, E6 G2 O( Y! S; g$ t# o0 ]
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- V/ v6 j' [4 {
in the moment.”3 a: n ]* Z- y* E& Z% H7 t
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
; R" U7 b2 @$ ?; |; cOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
0 p3 P/ ?5 f6 A+ _3 p3 o* r4 Z' [All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”8 \- s. m' |' `# Y1 U' M
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 ]( x3 A( K# Z* X9 |+ P
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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