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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING# N, w" m7 S* g1 s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: E# E J3 M+ o' D9 p# ]) TNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
( K1 }/ G) {6 P) y7 A- J7 M' ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 S/ J& b* s4 u* v* w5 z% q! ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
$ l0 R7 u* w9 k% K3 a! W$ Z2 K3 Bbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. s. Y8 D6 ]* l" ^* X1 U
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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.6 I4 ^( a* c- O% `& q
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over' M4 ]5 |4 B1 N' R' G2 m8 Q. z
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be0 _/ `3 B- L. \: ^
pure luck.
( b6 G" A1 t' h9 X" I& W$ ~3 z1 c& 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; z/ r: T1 I# O3 O6 |
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”# F: I- }# @5 B
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 k+ j* _' F7 p% Y4 s" R
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( A# r4 d- S8 V% {- P2 iStreet watchdogs.
9 B; n* J T. m( [3 @& z- q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
% E# k$ s9 E3 U5 M: xMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
u- o6 \. i# K. P% S8 }& c' h6 Ginvestigation.. S' Q7 v5 X2 T9 M" _0 y; t" ~
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
% U) Y I8 N1 C. cfour-hour confession.) u( u& O7 S, I
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, a* F3 c7 l) \3 I3 |* Q) Kknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* c. |& R6 R5 _
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 T3 E( C7 }3 R
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to! o. c# M. n* O( i
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
9 ? f( k+ `6 _/ U6 t2 b7 Y9 @in the moment.”
7 ~6 n' f6 h6 Q: ~0 NIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of# o$ m4 \# p" H( T' E' r
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 |& G* b; m P$ CAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
: g: G2 ?4 ?, J! F7 ]However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 F4 x8 g5 n& q* n; g, Qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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