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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* x0 s0 q) z% H
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 N# B" b; O5 _
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
2 X, c' ~5 u) F+ J9 ~2 _charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 [" K2 c+ b0 \
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 ^( Z5 n0 _5 @' d+ U% X: i
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January% o& |" U$ j$ `2 v4 \3 | U3 k Z
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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.+ x, q* I) O& f
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: ^: L3 U& A2 x+ `9 f5 K0 V7 h }2 k6 M% P$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
3 |; I- a, d- k- }6 }0 nIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
5 S: H( @( j% x8 T" i' |+ H- _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin. c1 |+ e. O* U/ ~8 L
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
0 G# ?3 h4 {- q9 BStreet watchdogs.
' n* h* ?# z' w. y/ G- {”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
) E' t! J& }) |0 O sMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing: O$ Y; k7 P3 }
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! S: Z8 ?1 f8 g' efour-hour confession.
' d5 ], J( Q5 k7 C2 I8 RCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common7 S( t ^; r" m0 L+ l( _3 ]
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. v: f# Z; ^- \ i7 E$ E
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
" P1 U9 b) V$ M”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
7 j3 E. ?$ a5 p$ t. v3 T4 wmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* U' J9 ]% O2 O
in the moment.”
5 ^( g& y! l. G& [; T8 DIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 |4 k5 X6 P. Z1 aOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. r. x$ I- [2 `4 {3 j I! VAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
9 W( E, J* A9 u% @8 V4 y9 aHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 R. C) ]: x/ k$ i
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