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( }9 B7 i' N; v/ ~6 |‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; A0 u7 _5 s4 `- @# E J1 [# K
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN/ b7 _- H/ Z: `0 z9 j, Z! ~, b
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. Y* _; r% z/ E8 O9 ~( T/ a0 {4 ?charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: s4 W# r% ^ u) X' P( t1 @
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the4 p3 _7 H2 a* o8 S0 S; R( B4 d
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January% F7 J; W2 h: G& o. b: L* o
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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.
1 h' w- A+ s* v% W# S”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
+ S* L; i( }" j$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& c. g" o* t `1 t# d* E$ C' u
pure luck.
: J u- r/ P& f5 Y o; ]: }. r( v”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
* T- G/ ~6 O% j0 dIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”8 Q7 h) H: ?; a
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 J, X" Z- h j$ x
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
4 B( {/ Y9 r1 A- C8 L6 @5 M3 `Street watchdogs.; K& r+ h/ `" Q2 r
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 _ p# m- m3 c% mMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* z( j# L9 R; A9 B+ y5 i6 c
investigation., l; P! S2 X. E% O, z% n8 b
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ @* Z* n$ T/ u2 i
four-hour confession.
9 |. S6 L3 K. Y7 B' SCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
' s0 @ V/ L" {* d1 [knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
# W: d( q7 s; _knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune./ l& U5 l) a. K: \4 I
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, W! O, R/ p: t! k/ W- S/ j1 \2 m& T
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! g) ~ L4 b4 M+ ]9 W. k/ L; Tin the moment.”5 B3 v7 T% q, ?7 }
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
, W7 s# q9 F4 ] Z& D. Q* ^Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
3 {( v3 I" n3 Y# H! X9 ~All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
3 U3 x% |3 j0 A _( SHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
8 X. X9 Q! X6 n. r1 Qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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