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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! `& @/ R3 i* Y; M4 r' {Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN: ~3 |, T5 f0 X6 m
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 n7 V! A4 | n
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& ^& n2 r# u: G& r$ U8 \Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, i. S( ~1 e, z q ~* n) {
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January7 p' ^2 c; k& G, j3 k* U& B
28.4 k* V, d6 }2 p4 v" W- H7 ~3 m
”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
1 }( i& a8 `% f8 u; d0 J”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- e- A5 F8 {9 ]; s; G$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be# B; T" K, d; \5 o" q* ]
pure luck.4 }7 S- p* q6 Z. O& A" K& _
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers# @/ i, R" M4 z; E/ ^/ }
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 \0 S) |! ^/ F9 |8 P" NThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin. g6 N: s* V3 y5 \/ c% J
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall9 o& _5 Y9 r+ B" T" {, n. v
Street watchdogs.0 g0 i) V' M7 p0 V2 }* O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,% u. q# `% N- c& {7 V2 S
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing, l" ]# I5 [, I: g8 j9 x
investigation.( b; f3 J& F! K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: O& [4 A# R3 p' Xfour-hour confession.
# b; v4 @- L. m2 {Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" Z- d7 G5 _& R0 o7 \: H8 S5 \& P
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 e/ ]' M- x- i; @8 a% Nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 P" f _7 M$ x* Z& q C
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to- N. a2 N6 C$ \9 {: L U3 ~
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught6 ~, |- I. c* J: ~, W) V Y
in the moment.”
/ j6 \2 v$ k. Z4 u& a( S' AIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
6 g$ Z, o+ X* h' C. s4 wOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& H, X @* ]* d" f
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”5 b4 w5 ]# }+ ]' C9 M
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
. L6 b- r! p7 zthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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