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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 D, n+ y7 r8 `! [# r9 eWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 [9 N: }3 ?1 K' {* i+ b4 x
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% g& t$ W+ P% W4 s' vcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 e" v6 X/ w1 H3 j! T5 x' BSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the8 F1 {6 z4 N- {- W! Q7 }
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* [8 V: v3 k" B4 j% ]) [; J”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
4 h- B/ I: `: H: _2 ?”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ |+ I9 Z% @5 W7 m7 a
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be4 g9 }& }+ y0 |7 z# @2 x
pure luck.# F' y% D! f' r! q7 Q
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers' |* p- I- _8 [2 m( w) I
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
$ a, Q! H# [, lThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; P5 h l4 F, h9 L0 w& ]) x& K
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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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret," s! B) j6 ^; `+ G; l
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing8 x' G! H/ W' A, j6 H* T s
investigation.6 ]/ A) O4 C# c$ o8 B' C
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling& G7 i, ]9 |, c( Y: i) w
four-hour confession.
; p. z$ Z- D9 u% A) o YCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common1 D8 x) ?+ E* `
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( `* ^6 v! c H! }7 e
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.1 p( S8 [: ~& N$ p% [$ ?
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
% q* f: D1 x% ]make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
% f' R8 u. o* V$ K( ]' Zin the moment.”" V/ {# V8 Q- L, \. J& N3 D. R. M" I
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of9 F$ n/ j" j( I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
+ P$ i& E6 Z# x, a, D4 FAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, N# E6 b# B' M' J9 J' o
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
" M- w0 z$ K8 c) \the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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