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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 E! x( C" b# s& _ t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN/ n9 U! N6 g& ~6 V
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading1 ]/ E# Q2 ^9 a& s4 W1 {
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- f9 w+ ?+ I) Z. OSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 Y% _5 o) F3 T, N# p1 Vbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, i/ \4 S0 c9 L4 H; `1 [”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.9 g& a) B' q/ j1 J; \% t, P
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- y. B! W4 q) X( M: |! _0 ~4 Y
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 {# t+ p1 I; _- [ Hpure luck.
3 @. _ B, X& |. B$ W1 F”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
$ V. b& d0 E0 T4 _- V1 sIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 L$ W, F2 r9 F# ^The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 A# H' H9 J3 `- T+ n; O" ^
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
/ [. H* A4 d/ J3 ^2 nStreet watchdogs.
! ]' _8 w* O3 }7 j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; A4 D" M: u3 p e* p7 k
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* _, [# \% ` q
investigation.
: j: o( S9 X/ r6 E- `0 B' D d) OWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 |0 G2 T# Z( e+ \; R I+ }* {: U6 Efour-hour confession.
; R; Q/ E' r% ?" LCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 j, x2 h' X. y Qknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with* i, l s2 A7 S2 H
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
+ F p" e8 O* N9 l* _4 @”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to+ V2 Q. _4 w% P. s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught; |6 X5 i$ J6 _9 N, |
in the moment.”" q# i2 f8 w" I+ J/ H$ B4 {$ d% }
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of4 S$ [" s0 t" |0 @5 S9 F+ ] }
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 F B! [3 y j; k+ _- F# mAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# \& m+ `! I) }7 BHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, `7 o& X+ Q7 E9 L" t! ?6 A1 a; Mthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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