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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING, z# T7 p" ?" J2 ?
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN$ h9 G3 W! q6 q3 X/ W# E' [
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: L+ Q5 V5 l" t
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- p6 e4 r" ?& G" B( Y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
, i6 x( k- P& Q. V, |# K6 w$ F+ ]bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* X% V7 Q" v* ^. ]: ?, s”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.8 [: n Q" K1 P0 \; ^; d
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 d# W. w: E1 s" P
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be# m' \- P$ p1 c/ A" T/ t3 K- i
pure luck.2 Q8 J, U; G) v \- k
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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* j) Z. X0 S( m aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 ?7 l. U4 h8 h0 k: h, e9 T4 A
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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4 N0 c* \) n* u1 Q6 D”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 P _0 f8 }. @6 Y- GMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
6 ^) R+ p. @) s, k7 B$ s' v( ifour-hour confession.
( ?+ e& {, h6 n0 ?1 U& Q8 YCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ A2 d1 o7 ]* o
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 j4 m! @" i4 Y2 `; V0 pknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% p- {, Z, Z9 x* @9 [”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, n, F/ V F5 W; J3 @ I& d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
8 l) R, b' O5 n w% F; rin the moment.”
! b' N* ]2 [6 X dIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of* b1 U& U8 H" B& l' |5 ~' z
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.5 }1 k4 e# P R. M% {: w3 v
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 G4 f/ ^5 G D" @& p, b [2 CHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( @8 g& W! L+ T2 R6 P8 Z9 n: [! c# j* Z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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