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$ U) F( v2 P$ x8 j‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
, U* J/ U1 Q1 ]+ V ]8 BWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 n+ Z- N6 y; Q) M! M3 J
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 F( Y! B- _' V2 |, b9 @, xcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
7 X) s) A' n# X( dSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 t3 M8 g1 x( L! w( N3 f0 tbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January5 p3 o4 B1 l7 I8 @8 c+ C# d
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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.
. R7 [3 e9 K/ y* k7 \# E, P”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
8 u( m9 O( i4 Z$ D$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be* k$ A- U! A* b& o( Y
pure luck.
/ w5 h; b$ l6 a9 y1 x”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers/ [8 c7 @0 W$ { M( a
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”) M3 |- G9 ^) o w1 S
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: N$ a- X7 z' g1 H6 w" u7 D0 H( G! mmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 r; G9 E; W; M2 W
Street watchdogs.( h# s9 l, N+ h6 Z' O+ Q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
" s- ~& Q' P9 H2 FMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing: _2 d7 o; l1 b: Q
investigation.- J6 O6 z" Y8 r8 B$ e
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" f# Y% }' H+ N: Ofour-hour confession.+ f' u1 p* v! Z S3 p) @3 K9 B" p
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
1 a K! h2 u' f/ J1 w# {knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with9 t! S$ s" x8 }7 I
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 J; ^9 o7 `% D$ Q3 u( r”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
1 l# K: K3 r$ k7 P" g' e1 jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- f r* {1 j* v: L; ^! }0 I
in the moment.”) o" e/ r8 i# a% m/ y% v
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 |* t8 O$ }0 x
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# N; r+ q1 N. Q" T/ H1 Z
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) i- ]% B; F' b' P! A0 f0 [However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
) @3 ^/ D" C3 Wthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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