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& k* }5 C( N: ]8 v5 c‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
( `% d0 \ i6 k; {Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% a% W' f+ H6 u. v! j
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! n0 \- b r% vcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!8 {* z2 K5 [7 S$ d# R+ s
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ B9 @7 {5 y. ?0 A! C
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January0 K- |( w S2 p( a
28.
4 K y0 Z, A. e( Z7 v2 y( [- E& C”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider./ I) ]9 m; u% Q4 ]9 g
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& p* w) O2 N3 ~; V7 ]) ?" j$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% d) S; Y3 s( R! |2 x8 Upure luck.9 c, h" N1 A5 o' w8 v
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers0 i% Y# w4 m, x8 H6 V. X
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”6 X1 `* j x# i. @
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin3 F+ P4 Z$ n+ {, {. a; a
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" `$ o" W! e. x3 D2 q8 |0 jStreet watchdogs.. l& ]7 w+ l9 I$ X
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
1 a5 U( D8 f6 J" SMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
3 o2 L: F* M( l/ pinvestigation.0 q; I% ?" n/ x4 }( @0 F
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! X! e2 G4 }: B+ t( Yfour-hour confession.! l8 W! S' N0 N. h% u8 u1 R0 g' E6 ^
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
9 j8 Z8 P0 n( zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with) i, Q- s, j/ K) I' ^' {/ J2 m
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; u9 v( F( f/ i: @: q
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, |$ c) J# L" M9 E8 f! c
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
; F6 V7 o! O6 G3 u: R- cin the moment.”
6 g& k0 f: H" \& @2 y5 jIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* D/ C1 n6 e. U4 x# w( s% I5 UOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
0 f" J4 n; u, I. ^4 L6 @All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# D! ?! m, g' P! m. |, n7 DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 a# n. ~+ V1 ^) r0 c
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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