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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
1 \1 s( i2 V) t4 y o+ \- C$ pWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN# C' W0 w0 s- e7 O0 i P
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
1 u6 Z3 a6 B5 Z) F8 h; \charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
H) x8 V/ Y0 w6 NSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
$ c$ J2 } z" s9 wbizarre 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.! |5 ?" J( n5 c% C! E! V' `5 z" w: E
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* G4 j4 b0 x4 w8 y
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
4 w+ t' S! A4 r2 i# n/ Tpure luck.
: N( x$ b- h4 O/ A% K”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers9 q- M2 s/ B4 J! m+ e4 `
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
+ h2 F' h4 W" T( | g2 p1 uThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin0 K* j# L# M3 H
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& ?& ^2 i7 @: k* S' M
Street watchdogs.8 i2 T7 ?% M/ v( ~% W) _4 r1 r
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 B/ @! t( T( Q! b) s7 bMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
+ X8 ~. }; g/ ~8 q( Oinvestigation.
( _7 h' Z: |, K, i MWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! x8 F! n( l& \. `; [: b0 d7 yfour-hour confession.
l8 J7 S0 H; G6 i7 O" OCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 s1 S; f7 ^6 @( d1 J7 M( s
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; b5 ]! r! I) K. m! A
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
A" S: x; q. E$ h8 F* z. ?”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to$ d6 I8 W) f2 @
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught1 R% C& O* S; _9 u d: w2 ]
in the moment.”
; M: c4 E" O; t; wIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of. J+ l" A* b) U- W
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 w* ^1 r4 U: B! k$ J- J EAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' {! q; y2 _* [. Z% I8 h) D1 _/ r! B
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
. |6 B7 y& y6 Y9 N; Dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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