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: j! w1 H& C) U- }+ W3 W‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING. B( B9 m* P E
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN# f8 |# r; O( i3 _) r* n
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
, X$ T: L# q, @' N0 m: U2 y1 Q0 Pcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
! }% h$ O; K( a3 R: qSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the) o+ \: x5 x5 P2 ^7 H
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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& N8 m" y7 X6 N% g) x) x9 G”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
; [* K a# k9 d8 h- a”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over# M" x* |' L; e' @
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be* y F" Q8 q; i& x
pure luck.
% w V1 L% p% f M+ v: U”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers7 j8 l2 K7 U7 Z" {- ?3 Y E# S) Z0 ^
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
: V. }0 F @$ r: _+ w6 K6 ^. C& NThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* @% R2 h! }% m5 U, l( c1 \made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall/ _1 a( o r3 b& I; g
Street watchdogs.1 d0 I5 Z$ K& @' O8 a3 n7 r! K
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 M7 d/ x: r# p
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, H2 }' |0 |4 h) N1 M3 pinvestigation.6 Y+ V% c3 N9 |( b' A4 N3 g
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling' p* y+ z& l7 S! O& A0 ]9 ?
four-hour confession.# {; q( Q5 n9 v: M& W% r/ R
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) O% f, U+ j0 R$ ]# `
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 J3 t" s6 h: bknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
9 I& m9 c/ U! H1 f- t9 Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 T4 T' X* l) m6 i! k: L7 n
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 p+ X. j5 x9 a0 q! cin the moment.”7 z4 j4 w7 @6 M3 _/ U S' l: Q1 X D
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
3 g1 c6 Q- r5 \Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
1 z5 `7 |4 |/ j: @$ S$ wAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”; l) C6 k/ a; Z! K& \. M& U$ _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear% _ ]% }& P3 W2 d- S7 R7 }1 h3 X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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