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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; ~$ C- W; Z |0 p! } \
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 }; W2 j# G( Q: [/ i) LNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading( k* X: P2 b0 Q, ~) Q5 O+ W
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
7 ~. ]% r: A3 i0 Z4 \Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 i" O, F+ X$ p' e) T% `+ O: {% }( xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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( c2 F# l: f0 S2 }5 w- b”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
+ I. A; t+ h, l, \! r: K9 o”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
0 `0 X. T" z+ H+ A5 B+ s4 F( p8 [$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
; `6 k8 t% P1 n; c$ D upure luck.
: l0 v7 Q) ?6 d" |”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) q; ?' I1 \/ W4 ~/ A* R' Q4 v
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 H5 M+ ]/ z1 w2 i* oThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
( P' A6 L$ d' C( d6 @3 y8 H! Hmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
- ?* Z0 F6 Y7 TStreet watchdogs.
/ L" {' M5 g1 E8 S”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
& G* b1 n% _& `* {0 h& S' O8 I2 TMr. 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( r) @* z+ i$ Q7 p
four-hour confession.
' p* D, I) ^: a: N: OCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* M- D* j. H' H m9 c. S; k- ~knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
. \, o+ {; w3 `knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.$ p4 B2 q$ ?% H& a) [: s
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to! j o; z( r$ e5 ]
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& S) g; f8 R9 t$ d$ a
in the moment.”2 V. u' u1 k6 p! w( ^6 G/ A
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- T( H% b7 E8 ? y W0 ? _9 s
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.* W# f4 {$ e- s. [8 X6 p
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
! ?0 Y8 y& W6 X% a- D' u5 }However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, E. k ]* u4 b! w' v3 S: ^" e8 `
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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