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! }2 v4 X1 V0 K+ ]6 z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING5 O: S9 z% y: R/ r! t" @4 m0 ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN3 z! I! U8 x% }, x
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 F: z5 r0 B O6 a6 H2 K0 X
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% c2 ~6 `4 m7 u2 R
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 E( G( z. E c D1 V. Y
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.
* l9 y, v5 i- p”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" `, i. ^ ~# R b
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ {9 u% D! Z; ?/ I t
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
. @9 ~* W6 N1 V; |" U9 R2 WThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
& }% F. i( X5 f9 i( imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall$ R2 ]+ A8 S& ]. b* `2 h
Street watchdogs.& C: R K- G7 ~# z+ M* T3 A
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. a" c5 K0 T' ^# |Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing# h4 q3 s g- D/ _
investigation.
4 E# \2 T% r6 G2 j3 M) MWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling7 l4 c- g* {* R. k8 X! e/ G4 ]
four-hour confession.* y2 T3 B; _8 v" z2 Q. }9 o; u
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, v5 I. u2 z7 | W* t6 Q O4 A1 P( zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with& e/ ?8 v5 u7 w4 u: V
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% H, ^" E( u4 ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
Y) L( j- g- ^! y/ Mmake 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 of3 ]: [; b4 e/ q! W& s* @
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ ]4 P! m2 K6 F2 d
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”1 _; L) \# X# K1 _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 s$ m& X# q6 {9 u9 m1 X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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