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9 M+ i- S# @% e‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! H2 T, w' S1 S# m7 U5 n' H9 IWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' z. U, m# I0 K6 @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 Y' K6 ?" P# z/ x& Q5 { ?" Z" Q \
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!+ Y$ `$ m g0 q P' `
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ e' d6 J8 V1 }7 R
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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0 ?- q) }" P2 j”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
$ W! q, e" f% S; b: f”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
! \- l N- D" }; s8 k' K) q6 [$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
# r& T1 P$ ?; A$ q3 W4 Cpure luck.( A9 L0 C5 }$ c3 B4 w
”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 j' D( c- {5 I+ |Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ \9 E( _6 y$ ?3 r& I
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin, X% A* W; y5 V6 s
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
& d I! O8 h" Y5 y' oStreet watchdogs.
- \0 j% ^7 T. Y1 `( p% t”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
7 h3 O6 W: U2 k; YMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 G7 C, A* `8 M2 Q5 v- Uinvestigation.
. `. z8 f1 g' _' o4 J- |When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
3 ]+ W( _& a% s& |: ]6 A3 ufour-hour confession.
9 o- K+ }9 L0 `% K) ~7 uCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, p4 W$ L* ~3 k4 |/ Aknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( b; v9 i% l) h7 m0 w! hknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.# ^0 k7 ?8 C8 `" Q. _; v6 W
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
) c" T7 T% t9 [+ K; h- _* ?2 Nmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 O8 Q, C3 y. T8 Y) h, I# e) d
in the moment.”
5 @! o5 f! G8 F1 Q1 OIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 G" f1 W" D' h b8 x# u$ c+ k
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.; Q% L H7 f% w7 ?/ u
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”3 w% U$ C8 y) R
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, `" n$ O1 p6 b% Q6 ]2 Rthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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