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: }+ `$ I% l5 D8 u6 p6 F4 O‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& E. P+ d9 n- D5 z2 a4 T* l5 A
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
; V8 |6 x0 [/ S6 SNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 L+ e) J6 O6 W* F) P& s
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% [3 D5 r+ ?8 ]4 F6 `9 m
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
9 K7 a4 G" d5 P' e8 N# O8 Abizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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! D3 y6 ?5 V& P2 |, F3 W2 E”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
7 ?8 M2 T; a9 m$ K/ Q* o”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over% P0 I4 b' a9 _3 p4 M
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
% p6 ?% U# z. \pure luck.5 L4 x: j- Y, F) ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin) E- M! _3 z: I7 C. ~
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
) o# R* a! M2 _5 gMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing) x( P2 ?3 b y$ I1 }# P
investigation.
: M1 n6 D; C& g" S& I1 j# q, FWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
/ `5 v# g; @$ [$ @$ y' w3 I6 ufour-hour confession.0 E4 w9 G& V2 n# z* X/ @; G' H5 S. ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common2 Z7 g4 p& n# V% l3 @- u+ }
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* ]7 {' K! {9 aknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' n" T( t$ I. h”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 a) T, w* \* j8 I' z- h) r
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
7 {6 t- O2 L2 {8 [: O. ]* pOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.7 E0 j9 G$ n& ~7 O
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( d. z* _0 z" |( J& `0 ]* G- W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; k7 R0 ^, e$ c- ?: L* [" U
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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