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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf8 ]# X$ Z$ U. S- b% }
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 p b6 L$ {6 r) E8 M" D4 t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN' E! j1 y+ \4 _. d
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading5 f) j% w' u1 M8 L; x4 ?/ L
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* e* }8 ~5 D! h9 V& TSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the# i S6 }2 @( \: t6 b( c
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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( N- X: {, ?" U”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.; w2 Q0 S# n9 F9 h: ^2 f3 U
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 v0 D6 @+ O6 ?: {3 H$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! c1 {7 m& {* g; O' k6 c% kpure luck.
3 E7 P x8 [+ m# ^. q”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
" P- J' Q9 I9 V% s( ?Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) g2 e3 }. m" o. ^5 ], E5 TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin3 A3 T" e3 @# }. Z
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
* b. W! y" D* @& r. q2 p; vMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- l! V2 d: t/ ?, ]3 }- F! _: H
four-hour confession.
m$ O/ q* L; h; ^8 R4 e' |Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
9 z( _' H# p# T4 ^knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. V$ z$ X9 w4 g( Dknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
+ A& Y9 y( t! L”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& s; P3 Z) r/ e6 w; q
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
% n3 Y3 h) {5 R7 \- v" V- WOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. T; t+ _0 |2 Q0 e: C
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, A# ^( A! k+ v3 G- Q
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* \8 L/ W' E1 K+ A* \
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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