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, N1 P( f; V% i* s‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING" r- N, G( \( _4 J$ {/ y# O3 t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN& \' G0 c- d d7 W: S7 H. O( u7 N) t
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% v* ]1 H/ t- d& Q* q6 p9 ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 D9 C. O6 p4 x0 ?4 i# }4 p! W; q! FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 t( @$ x/ {' ~8 [1 N2 T" i
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January# \3 n- s! m5 Q- @: o/ d
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3 e' Z' m$ Z/ i”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
, B; l$ m+ L' \ l/ r3 C7 `3 k' s”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; X2 @1 _8 L% U$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ ~# e6 D0 Y* a, \/ ~pure luck.
. E9 x- b+ }1 O8 R8 ~”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers* N) p# k6 @$ v$ S6 Q% E
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”8 A$ N# |, Z6 |) z3 i; l1 b
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ b: L% d" {& |. l, n% f8 fmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( Z+ O+ t9 T) d6 m: a5 x( }Street watchdogs.9 K) T' y' q' o8 q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
, o' i2 q! V. w4 hMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
) e" v% b$ F# @* x- p2 ?investigation.
3 C: R* E5 V6 F# @ tWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' W) @$ m: ^# y. K' o: ofour-hour confession.5 K, F. B/ [5 x9 J
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common: \8 l; X" z5 W; K1 U" J8 z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
, V" ^# K* G6 w' ]$ e) yknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
1 N+ m) u' ^% `$ k+ P% t; k”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 }5 S& U0 k% I) f& L. pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
* n) W3 }+ T7 V) [# r/ d# ~in the moment.”
0 C( x/ W% P" ]& H# ^$ t m; c( oIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
+ V$ k5 ]5 V M1 z5 N( y7 BOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 n$ k( e, S* M QAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) i5 f6 y9 y$ d6 ^/ L5 VHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear6 D r) T4 N9 Q9 ~
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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