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$ o7 Z9 |9 L! M) r‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! |8 e4 [0 `* V3 U$ @3 rWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ r1 N" r7 S9 s. A6 [4 q$ S4 \3 }NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading% e! K, D3 z. d% [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!7 i2 d3 T8 j4 h6 e5 d& `
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the( g1 I9 X2 K5 E; h9 [$ T$ G# y
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January! \. |% @5 ?5 `/ k; ~: K8 t& Y
28.
2 r/ D: [& i# g”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
/ K$ E, {! o8 U( M8 ]3 ^”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over a$ v2 w7 J7 Q9 @: `6 l
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 m h) u2 d8 a' p4 |2 z$ Ipure luck.( g& _% |+ V; W# O8 M. p
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: e8 A9 O( T+ {0 T$ p. dIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”# N' K2 p+ c% T: p
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. m; i" R# R% l$ {/ a0 D7 h, Amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall k5 x2 e5 M$ c/ H+ v6 k
Street watchdogs.
/ R' s( [& ^% m”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& l, f, j9 v8 U* K6 |) J9 d
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, ]+ [, w G* Xinvestigation.
7 u8 `' y/ d( Q2 _) @" [When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- Y+ a, q! P! ] tfour-hour confession.2 T( F0 J6 k9 Z* r7 F8 Q) F4 M
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ l( P! D" Z* I" J
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with! W) { D9 H( E. K4 g# J3 R+ ]
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.! S1 ^, t) a' ~6 u% A
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
5 m5 \2 q4 y+ k: imake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught; n. ^8 V0 b* a# r \! B- q
in the moment.”
0 G2 H; ]2 V6 F6 J; J, u5 K0 p+ b5 nIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of' a0 n5 z* P+ V6 k3 E2 ?: V3 w! \+ B
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 X2 G! Q! ?& l, v
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
( R3 X( M5 G, HHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 s" w& Z' L( j% d6 P
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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