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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf$ H: d7 B9 z9 A5 d
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
& _( Z, J# {6 S; p2 k3 iWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
, a0 W3 Z# ?* k1 K* U. y5 \NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
* W! P* y4 Q% x& P! T# ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# O q! P! n2 W5 S, C+ }. q. [Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
, q. i; o& i7 {1 _2 G$ F; Xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January: S1 }1 Y% n' b! g
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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.& c. k* H! j7 [* Y
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 u- E) ?8 k+ H- c7 V2 X9 H( O
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) C* I9 d4 J5 @1 ?+ q0 |pure luck.
5 _& {& A* n2 M2 p" B. ?”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, G0 ~; B% X# D1 M' NIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”$ Y4 o$ ]% m5 _( Y. X+ B
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 F3 n6 z; w- o: G
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 S& Y( ]# J4 G/ s& C+ h+ ^5 V; d- O
Street watchdogs.
; W ]4 J# `" ?2 U7 K! h) z”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ p- q; d+ l( ?; ^
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing' F" |$ p8 t# \, h- }6 l
investigation.3 F, [3 e% r, h+ ]5 b0 \ q2 {6 A
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' ^- L2 E% y R7 g* qfour-hour confession.
9 M( z" ~1 I# |( {( E. k0 i% ACarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% @" v" _" N5 U9 j7 J" I
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" e$ u, l) H) q, h4 a3 Yknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' H0 E- A! q7 g. ]$ U. `! B9 p
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 p* S% Z9 t+ t, ?( P
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 Z Y$ v9 L, N6 [; ]in the moment.”
. w! }* P# B2 W$ A, y$ }% SIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ j T5 B5 s6 G, e! e# W7 i8 S
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
( g, l i' {& N3 {+ Y( _8 P: sAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( }' X: Z4 j2 a/ W. _+ a
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 m/ u) [% k( F- o' J
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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