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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf3 O: o2 |, d& P( U6 e1 b
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING4 X' W. D( V( w3 J, A1 _' R
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN% e i' N. o, e9 o# T+ S; K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
2 J7 L. {& X) j% b0 F9 b" fcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
8 z# d) Z( n; zSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the1 ?. s G- r4 |/ ~+ j% @
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# x' Y: C: [5 j# K0 H$ W% T) N”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
r' a( B2 ^: @/ a6 @. w”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% C) M, s/ y$ n$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! g# k" K5 V3 Epure luck.
* ~1 Q$ V! P: @/ k5 U% T% N3 W, Z”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 J0 a* w9 l' o6 z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- O/ [; `8 _, D1 O2 V, b% ]; cThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin/ w' R" @( S7 P8 x8 p% a
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall* @4 b% n3 g* [3 X" Z$ R* r8 s
Street watchdogs.& G7 ^- Z3 Y- d: k# D- H7 l
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,( x5 E" p& `; |& a8 C. `& @/ J
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
+ q& V6 y: f* y n5 e: \investigation.; ]3 G) `2 {% C
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: X& S% Z: F5 W( q/ jfour-hour confession.
" }" {# G. F9 o9 v+ v; dCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: L7 ]- U% i( M2 w2 T% ~7 }7 iknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 |( D/ z v) @3 S1 D
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
/ Y K) S+ |3 \1 p; x”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
' v' Q( y) Y1 {* S; xmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught8 ^7 |4 L+ W2 \( {# l6 [' y ~/ B
in the moment.”9 r" X. y$ `- R' w2 w1 ?
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! e, d: `& d8 y; F, Y- i
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
% p# V, L# P+ m1 F6 ^, J6 x3 J# [All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 O' R* ~6 z# p1 a! _5 m! T! g4 N* H
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
' W6 U9 u- r8 P* G% |' z% r$ tthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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