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% E! [" k! Q8 D7 z8 m‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING7 s) k) U7 X9 K" r; d0 D+ G
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; S$ V+ i& ]3 [
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 E3 L, @3 ]( ]; x7 }0 Vcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!2 Y7 D+ D+ @7 ^- u. t& T( Q
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
; R0 ]1 E" E! P1 ~6 ^! X O7 U5 |bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
. ]/ B" s( w% A2 ^% v”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* G L9 P. X( }- Z( a/ V$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ b* [' @; W1 J7 q" Ypure luck.
! c6 Y7 ^* x, U. [. e3 ~* ]; 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
* S3 E. `3 k# y% D) G: bIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
- F! R, n/ E% {) P* z. ]7 WThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 t' C4 P P0 J8 L( W: Y: ]made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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6 p1 f. p! p1 e”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
1 [2 a( _- I/ }! i4 M# L6 j0 uMr. 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
/ M+ x, k$ b. v* t9 ffour-hour confession.1 @* a0 _* V! o! ]! F1 p. V& Z, t
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) B6 ]& _' S7 w( K5 }9 d
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with2 h* n( `; B0 ]- e3 x
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.- K- }8 E& Z8 W A" w
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to0 j! o9 o! d% M' @5 P2 x" R- x
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught, ]/ }' ?" f4 {& u" c
in the moment.”
' ?/ F. z) f. A3 `" L7 m/ [In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of$ \" Y/ B$ ]+ {' B2 _" G9 { D* e
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.4 D) d" Y; ~$ U' j1 C
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
1 m7 L) T7 W" W/ t0 IHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear" y( S/ e$ q( c& W% y0 `3 G
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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