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3 v# o6 `+ s/ b/ d% u' ^‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) C- O* d0 F3 V) ~0 Q! e2 aWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN" U4 N! c0 f7 W: F8 o# [6 O
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading, F: Q$ A2 T& I% x4 q; P, D/ b
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
9 p9 j6 r! t5 ~ }% R1 MSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
( M: E# e, Q! S; C5 d9 {/ V5 l3 F3 Fbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.
, h" }) X, u u6 r% { X”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! k0 L: `/ x# E( A2 |
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ I2 Q, i7 y/ h6 W
pure luck.0 C; P/ D k; S& D0 \) J' C
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers/ w- y1 t) w4 ]) `+ t) j2 N: T8 {
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! F4 s% l$ B( }' i% U3 OThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 a: ^4 o7 K, Q: u8 F E/ M; \
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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9 @6 W: R3 p6 y- _6 H”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,2 l7 i& G3 `, U9 U6 J m" V4 U
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* q, y( _9 R) X9 A: G2 T8 z! _+ m
investigation.$ g5 d7 Y n- w
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- }' h! H, z! p& ^4 e6 bfour-hour confession.* W- J( {/ P; F* T: |- I
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common1 E& j# ~& I2 `% M
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ d5 N9 u9 y( i( w& p4 cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 E- P! @1 ?, ]; t$ n”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 _; {( O( w4 @8 A
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& [/ x' J+ c2 F1 {) A7 z R
in the moment.”
1 B( @" y1 ^8 r: s- bIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
& t$ X! v$ |: n" u SOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
( `" ^+ e- ] N0 vAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( @! w) ?- q. ]+ i+ F5 x) e( R0 g
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( p# o2 J/ H |" r# N. o5 g
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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