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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* `, N% l. N- ]0 @" C6 qWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN q5 ?! h' }4 b( Y1 J. E
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
2 v8 p& o$ X5 l/ bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!# ~5 B' V5 C; U+ @5 ?- |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the6 ?1 @. `) Y: e* o+ @
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January& m2 ^8 V: x; r( r4 w/ x2 T& J
28.
3 z- A/ O3 D0 d/ f$ v8 N”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
* R3 S- s* U, {1 V' T% \”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over; h7 L- z# T& C# Z" c. r+ S' v* d
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! L( `. i* L3 _2 h+ p6 ppure luck.
" h# A7 d% x9 r& h- [ S”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
9 M e1 P: L: P, |, {Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ i9 J( T' s! }The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin( i& n2 N( c, W" F( B+ w+ Q6 I
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 L# ^" j9 o" M2 ]1 oStreet watchdogs.; A! s6 G+ X* s& {( O/ n& M
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,3 k- K3 s/ F# {3 P7 ? L
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 }4 d1 i0 X3 \6 Z* E
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
( D6 ]; o. K3 W& ufour-hour confession.
/ ]/ j- j/ k2 I2 D. sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: u$ D8 {- [5 \' B( dknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with/ T* x2 A' n& ]
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.0 T g' R) y6 a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to5 k9 Q- Q& i6 d/ d2 q: d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught0 u. _2 t5 a, A$ D2 k" o5 T
in the moment.”7 T% b4 J+ M& B0 C4 k; s
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 H$ N5 Q4 Y1 O1 R+ h) B; N
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." b/ E9 V& A. h0 N$ Y$ B) ?; q3 _
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 m- ]) P& \- N" i. e: g
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear0 M* l ~& e5 Z6 F9 J
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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