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& e# R x. h5 }2 @8 v8 g5 I$ y‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
5 `$ Z, j6 g& l8 s( r! CWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN7 ]$ x7 z3 Y% ?( u9 U
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
0 l2 Q/ d* X# ?# T; kcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!& s) O0 F) d6 G% j+ I2 M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the" u! g5 }! l) M" ]% f) M
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January0 y2 G# ^0 l3 K# a
28.
. b$ a) e; ~7 e”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider. E7 x5 s. u/ P, B5 W
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over$ _( Q' W4 F2 k$ g8 E! A
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
+ P5 l1 Y, T- Z& w. L, z, c" epure luck.
. G8 k$ B0 H' H4 ?) j”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
( e Z/ H7 Y* T) Z5 C: { i$ gIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”: l, E; [$ ^& f; {. [9 c3 ]
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ D; Y; E- } ^, c4 hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' K; C2 n! `& M6 S& ]8 B
Street watchdogs.3 s6 u3 O) @" l& X8 g/ p, |
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 e% [. A: d& ]
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing( G9 Q5 _& X. M; o; s: }
investigation.& t& n S4 g$ n1 R& K3 [0 o3 _
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# d4 p P z: M; y
four-hour confession.% Q5 o% m: q& g' Q3 r
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common8 e: X/ k2 N. p' M {
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 {' K8 M3 e" V& G0 v. @3 Q9 d' Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
^# b0 K' ^% `* r, f! ^; v' s/ y”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& i' [' X l7 |' R1 \" f( cmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 Y7 v: W! t4 l! w) C! n, I0 Sin the moment.”/ |$ K- h9 O4 c7 ?0 P5 q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! N" g- m6 E, ~& z' j- jOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.1 P0 L. X+ _2 g0 S" W4 `
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, a( }8 b3 y9 X! C2 R) @
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- J6 v2 b }0 r/ I3 k. ^the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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