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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 H+ N; ]9 l( m6 }$ P T0 q
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( F* K% F! X2 b1 O
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
$ E5 e$ U4 o) I3 \charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 Q& w7 X* y. u2 g
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 c2 I; O" S$ I+ D, I6 j6 t5 @bizarre 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." W5 h$ I' \9 i7 y0 c- q
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over9 }; x h, t) G& F3 h) P* C5 W; l$ [
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ K+ e- V) ~4 p p8 {, O; m3 E, A5 |pure luck.
1 h1 c7 ~6 Z& U( \% u1 @”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 t" G1 L1 y( f
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 C7 M# d; ?! w
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 M- i3 f- w6 ~4 D" H& _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 D% Z0 Q2 S0 a6 N% |0 `
Street watchdogs.
$ g& b+ `2 \' J2 k' a y' J% C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ W( v& P4 H$ T/ Z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 i( Y8 R: p, I% x
investigation.5 ~' ?) W7 l# }
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# ` E: r5 q! j( T G; B$ F" W0 J, W
four-hour confession.
2 f! J8 V% d7 z VCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 G" ~" _- M) n0 ~; L* s
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" N, k2 a) N+ \% n3 xknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) o* N$ B! y; b; X0 q! H”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 U2 m- k6 O0 v" B8 @
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' N$ t% q/ k) i
in the moment.”
1 q( X: b: L8 EIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
$ V; M7 T1 H+ Q( b5 MOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.6 ~& w3 P z. \
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 K9 `; J6 k& Z& \' \
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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