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! u5 h/ w* L. ~; g/ Q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING5 P. [! ^! N* Z- g- |
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN7 C8 X5 b- T9 ~- {
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: v+ m4 `% [- q2 H7 {7 q" j
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 O- g8 O* C5 u6 h
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& @) f! [/ [* \5 Y7 h/ D- l8 u( L, w
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* i' D7 Z1 d$ ^$ E$ M6 t$ y) g”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider., S" u0 k; R! h# V8 x# T" f
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ J# @2 u7 ~5 [4 n% x H
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
; ~9 D2 `# f+ p; N4 Vpure luck.
2 n& D7 _8 b6 F5 e6 B* ~”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
) w8 {2 h' A% M! V3 G: ^) m6 xIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.” R5 U t$ l& f) k* ?$ J P9 n
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
1 {: j0 J2 \+ ~made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
6 B2 v' b0 x6 u% S3 Q5 V( z: RStreet watchdogs.2 q; q( z0 f7 w' z2 a* Z
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 v/ q2 P4 H3 O; a/ wMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
) a- d2 H$ ]* {& `( A3 K4 }, U( f8 E8 minvestigation.
8 T3 s7 p$ o7 a( N: [. t$ Z; fWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" Q/ o9 X" d9 _' m# \8 I" l; Ofour-hour confession.3 T2 `8 _/ G+ u' [& ]% l, H4 V4 L
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
% H0 v, _- G& O9 j6 B/ Cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
, X: N$ |8 H8 d. B' Pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 N5 J* t" m& r. u
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to2 h P, l. z4 C l2 p
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& S& R# a7 B9 O' x, o
in the moment.”
! _4 m+ U" b1 r- d1 {4 C( n. P. \4 S7 SIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
' l" ^, c* O0 A2 N- P! I0 M LOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
* o# g1 Y* Q- E( l& SAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* m: L! x8 b; K: W: \+ P4 G
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 I, e, i0 n& x( l% Y6 r0 p
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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