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! M: y1 [# U8 G" E) v‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ n$ F" o0 B% A
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN8 i" ?( \1 z3 j4 P# C
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 v. F8 S1 H0 ]* Acharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& y. |5 I; v0 V3 d( vSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
. }7 p; Q9 ]7 R7 t; ?; i8 Nbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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6 x$ N# j: h6 x”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
. @" h5 H: ?* v w. N”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% w9 O+ n, L5 R: M$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers i& r6 X: b+ ^, u; F& m
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”" T- b7 w T" w# E' V: n) I
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin( K7 B) p" n n: ~* T6 y) R/ S
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
- |6 C/ h8 o" H' |Street watchdogs.
. i# v' D8 J# |+ r- G”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,1 z/ N& U( ^3 p1 g' K
Mr. 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, H! Z6 W z5 c# d8 R- k
four-hour confession.
( T- C3 w" F5 O: r8 `Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
$ Z Z* N: J$ w; o% hknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
6 ^8 l( j* ^1 fknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 [# O% y1 h4 U& u”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 I2 q) B' M0 x4 v3 {make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 b1 i p7 q! Y2 \0 {5 T
in the moment.”: @. ]9 i' K( B& N& H
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
+ U5 b& W' j: }6 j6 K6 COsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
4 X. z% K% S" E! u8 PAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' e* D$ L7 U" n' t$ d7 P
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
+ w' {- z/ l- Uthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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