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8 X" |8 p2 j/ M‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# _; w) k @2 P# n$ P
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 U1 R7 _" z' nNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
N) N7 `5 H8 [! l, Hcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- E! X. B% C6 `/ C0 C
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 i/ F/ J* J" D* ]7 `bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
3 T4 I; d$ E5 H2 I- e28.
* ~4 {5 C( f7 B; U7 t: J”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ y/ r L$ K$ Z; d6 C
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
. B& [$ K' r/ w4 G: n$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
6 q0 j w2 @7 s; L' |7 Lpure luck.- i* S' D, \/ Q" c; ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ H* e8 o; l* l0 ^! z1 n/ PIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”: s: i8 Q: s. ]( v
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
E( _* J7 I2 O0 G/ s, Lmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall$ J. G r9 j6 _/ C
Street watchdogs.
: W$ s% N$ N/ _2 u& d+ b”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ Q# ~! P0 ~7 F3 b
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 ~, B9 i; q7 X6 \: j. W1 e% d" x7 jinvestigation.
. j9 S& ^: T; { O, kWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
* O2 T* l7 @ K1 J' Hfour-hour confession.
C. B6 Z F+ c4 E9 z# p5 `Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% V- r j4 H# g" w, _( w% F( {
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, o$ ?0 Q; B5 ~3 v
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
6 n% i6 Y: w% f- u& }”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
Y* F7 \, f. w, X# k! @ Kmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 b! k) E4 B; g* Min the moment.”
o: a- q3 I0 w. }% T5 IIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of6 J5 k" B( ?2 f
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.7 X, Q! H. Q0 t0 {% s- v, v6 i9 j
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.” f) ^9 ~2 g- |; e) j' l
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ l L; T# O0 C
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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