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2 N8 o2 ]+ v; s9 S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
. x D; \, j; r7 B6 @, r% rWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN- ~, a4 R: k( A e c
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: A7 X* ^* d2 [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
5 G4 c9 g8 |2 k7 ]% X. e& m$ N0 nSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 M4 Y+ g" {$ h" G! O6 t7 K% \+ h7 ?bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- {* Y3 ^3 R. h8 b
28.
# R1 Z2 \, I: [' ^”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
8 h) @2 r9 T- y1 R" _* o3 D”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: |; ^2 `6 h# S& A+ s& f$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 f, x4 f/ O7 M' [; c% _7 V
pure luck.
2 k0 i- E! w" }”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers( q* j+ ]/ B0 _
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 \" c! V& \. s7 X% f
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; X( ^6 _' ~- V8 y" x
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall* E; I$ e) ~! K" C& e2 d- z
Street watchdogs.
: w, Q3 O0 |) J& a4 _( `+ `”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& }* H$ v' C6 f/ }, `' B5 N+ E
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing: x# Y8 C4 X# {/ l/ X2 G
investigation.0 f0 |( @' Q! l5 e: W; Q& l
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
* P" `2 c9 ?3 h V( M9 ffour-hour confession.
+ T* b! H) l) V+ c+ ]; ]Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
2 U# T, j$ G0 ~1 H* ?( Aknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' W, C8 O0 t& U- e! Z! e) q% D
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* Y+ m) O+ c' a1 S* V& ]+ x5 J$ W”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. ^5 M# l- n- y& Q c% imake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) d( S A7 O# b: h9 Q' g
in the moment.”' T8 _6 P1 k2 p! W" K+ |; e4 B o
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
& u4 r+ A. T# `) F# c7 i6 ^Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.% t4 s( m9 W, N, R, F* o) f
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' ^& v/ b0 v. A2 W8 d5 xHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( U6 v; B2 E8 N8 v2 Y( C7 Q; G
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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