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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf2 ]8 A) k- [, [/ b1 U* _# ~3 K
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING3 D" L& B" P; v& `
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
- C: z( {# p( ]" Q" `/ [& ^NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading) s) H+ s, W9 B) v6 A9 [1 X
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!! Z8 a4 c% P: ^4 ?
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 u* B- _) v9 _' z
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January; |: E& i( Z! ^0 }+ I$ Y
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
, M% ~5 y- M( [# }# I”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
+ z. T( l2 c8 f+ M& P2 W# l$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be- }. m% O1 O- Z9 x, S7 f# D
pure luck.$ ^# f/ `. w' p: T7 Y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% U6 |! k$ t: V3 y& u9 y, S, s- @' q
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 r1 a5 R# l# m+ i1 \
Street watchdogs.. h1 B, n6 `# s0 i
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: w3 h! w7 t* n; u5 J Z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing0 ~4 k- k! j4 j
investigation.
) e) d! w9 U5 F w Q7 cWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling6 g' e; I/ s8 ]3 E' i% t# C/ j
four-hour confession.; L. D3 }' L' k5 `
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 |+ ~0 C* H+ ]& Z% f
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: d4 m. o' p3 A& }# T, V5 Zknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 [/ j8 M4 p6 q" \* ]9 Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 y' b/ J/ a: d( |# S" @, P
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& b" K7 g6 X/ _. Z1 J+ }! y* k
in the moment.”# t# l. E& W6 G# X3 @- y
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ y6 Q! A: i7 r# ~5 ?+ ~8 BOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
; Z( J0 m# P1 d9 D$ D9 RAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
* w' K# Y9 V% K+ v0 \However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, b! b( s, I$ }the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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