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' n- z* T& {% g7 W, [4 q* @5 a% S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* f, u& e" G3 K; O1 j0 z: G; H
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN6 j5 s+ T& S/ w: W9 p
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading7 q" f+ s# r: |2 u% V
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!8 H U) @1 N9 D1 x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
^* @! I' @0 s7 a# ]+ E( A, B4 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. V: v; T0 |: T2 j- a
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over+ [6 a2 C& h' m
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be; S$ s! b, H" I- V/ |
pure luck.
9 L% Y- ]* t. N4 C$ m”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 Y6 v, n8 T! W+ u$ i$ e1 J/ p
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 o+ r" r: S' t9 L7 ]7 P6 J/ tThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! \& O+ k0 z. |' Wmade 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,6 d; t5 Q& ^ J( a# D# z/ X' r$ S
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% C3 Z7 F) n0 j& S; \' b
investigation.
5 L7 B$ D* P4 Y- j& w1 d" _/ b# DWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling5 |1 N, U/ ?0 ]- L' v' u4 w9 t2 |
four-hour confession.
/ `$ o( W+ A) `% QCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
% ^8 }0 e5 X( M# N; }, r! c0 ~knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with3 L# {5 X% }: i6 Q$ K
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
4 @5 @! K8 [8 |& E1 ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 H7 s5 ]6 p7 q1 J' B
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
7 q6 l3 z1 h1 L- e8 C% o8 `* d# R0 A* ein the moment.”
) n" r( X) P+ ]/ N. VIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 W- ?. D% ~2 @" p& I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.( j& U' L, A6 s+ P# m) T- v
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, h# k5 t; j% v: b+ O. V
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
1 z* t5 S q' X% W; v5 W. Ethe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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