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* C& k2 w+ V* J5 R‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: g2 u4 S0 l9 m: c" E$ S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( B2 c+ v8 e) i% o, T' r
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading i" K% O2 W) m; I3 E8 d1 q5 k, w
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% g* V5 U: c+ |0 e- S- VSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 y: N4 ]0 m }$ \ U" obizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* S' ^& N2 D2 { T) ]”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
+ C3 L8 \8 ~( C0 l) w! [+ q4 N”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; S. b4 `2 ?3 p- X1 X+ ^/ p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be7 K6 [$ z0 s3 E5 W" }5 Q
pure luck.
/ m6 q1 d% a$ z. s. c# Y8 [”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers6 F! S, P% N+ h
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- p* @# m1 n" uThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 u' H; a# I, M8 h# U M: Imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ _+ [0 f9 S' h, E7 _$ ~
Street watchdogs.. @0 c( x& v& P- A5 k
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! _: ?: C$ @. L2 w2 S8 `# _* R
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
. O2 I2 }% C& V) y2 Qinvestigation.! J& ]7 r* Y+ F7 v6 t8 K
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling1 z0 h- `0 F) O. m6 c2 @
four-hour confession.
) G0 j, x) F& n$ ~3 S: a4 r5 q( p; vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
3 O C D/ U* e! }6 \3 Fknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( h) G' Q+ r5 {! s) i# y" J9 A0 i& E, {& P
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 ~& m% h# y* v* T( ^8 Y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to8 Y, f& x* a7 Q# m. T& `* _8 ~: D2 G' J
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 `* G4 P3 b4 p" G1 k2 z5 H
in the moment.”" @1 S3 l* c. C( \
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of9 ~1 Q l- F( D& u- G$ V
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. h+ Y& M: V: \0 l- d8 H' B9 e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
! {8 F: Z; r i- ^0 x- ~8 M" r' SHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear7 H1 x* K/ A/ ?" m% z0 r
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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