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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf; s0 l2 G% I9 i: U+ O$ G9 Y, L
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
* C. S: Y+ r5 o2 K) EWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN* f* T: ]( R, ^3 y) b7 [
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading; p( M0 |9 S0 z. N) Z
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!' `+ o' D4 I6 x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
! P0 B5 x* @, n0 ~/ I* }bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
, ?8 q$ y7 y- Y28.
, O4 a' c' }, b# m1 F. l1 V! ~”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.7 o% w$ ]" p% n6 U
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over+ u8 J& s4 M! h5 x) H# ?. k
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
# p4 t0 i3 A5 D* spure luck.
* ]. c$ b: X5 I& ^- d$ @ Y”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 y+ _) W2 T$ l0 h# l
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”' I% H6 G" ?8 a$ R+ Q V
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
4 v4 x# L# f* D1 ^8 v: Qmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 c$ ?; C$ H! a% Y
Street watchdogs.
! H- I" c8 X: n: w”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
N z# r, I9 }/ y$ wMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
+ N A- _. Y" m8 E' i6 l$ finvestigation.; w7 y, j) M1 n1 r( r8 B
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling( d( e- g5 c1 B6 x. ?
four-hour confession.
" I+ e8 L" ^2 \' \/ Z# R# PCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common( q" @: g, r& c" a& y9 m6 U
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( B( E! ] v6 R% Iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) l7 B" S# d7 g$ J7 O”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, t9 o# e+ F( o2 T# }4 c0 t
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
) |& X% }- z$ v6 W6 L" sin the moment.”
@- D1 p1 i B: u+ yIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! ^% B: W6 H, pOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 d9 G, \ s0 P' p5 q$ u9 E7 K
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' m+ ^' o( l( k6 Y) m6 A- mHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
0 v4 [, a0 {4 D1 qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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