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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf* q, b" i z- G' `
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 z' J, O0 M5 I" N$ @8 J$ N6 M
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
$ M$ L5 z" T, `NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; }2 V; }/ c( \4 f
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!6 ]; o1 s3 L- N- ^
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
6 _, Z( U. k( I. o$ V" sbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January: W# F7 E$ b; D
28.
* s7 g1 e9 j' }”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.2 q" w& ?* ]) a5 O3 r- g) L' l
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; [ x) H3 l9 Q$ S( G3 N6 p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be N% R- _$ i3 ]& s9 Z
pure luck.# j, b, p# |; y3 z
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ J) O; j- y+ w. O! MIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
0 g$ @( h- I$ G U) ?5 TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# v$ T5 l& v. c$ u5 Rmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall1 |9 X# a1 H4 f$ E1 G2 y
Street watchdogs.4 |5 \; N b0 b, e0 B
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, i. ]0 t) x* D' k
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# Y2 C( ^/ Z+ P8 R$ O4 |investigation.
( d% y9 U1 ~- P8 PWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling0 d3 k2 Z% U; X
four-hour confession.
/ a+ ?$ v0 Z) T. zCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common/ i0 n7 z8 w# ^& ?1 k
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: X }9 v3 ? M5 N3 |6 _1 x4 G& W
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* D* F& a% Z$ H, ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
/ Z d7 m8 y! wmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
: B' K& X- W0 F/ H; S" f3 din the moment.”
8 v& i* O: Z ~# W. B y1 i6 jIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ b! e/ H, y2 }; J) X- [0 WOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
* @$ C* U. J/ L! GAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 N4 L( M; t4 c, b8 W0 s3 m( O% j
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 ]: n( F3 o4 L
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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