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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: T* _- `. Y( O; ]/ a( W
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN" h. X4 k( m W1 ^
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 k; |" T3 U0 ]3 Y2 ^- O# gcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# b: q. j5 K1 N5 e3 i) R2 q! bSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
* g* U# a$ T8 G% R3 {0 @bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January) Y) Q# Z5 i8 b& J! {, `
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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.
( |* s2 x: G. s”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
6 n& V. C$ C0 o' W+ ]$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
[5 Z3 u- c6 n. l* U# vIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”. R- _& B' k8 _
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
- t1 {- @$ o- } R" smade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
% B" i! u5 O$ W" l5 X2 e% Z; DStreet watchdogs.
x$ w- t# o8 |- H- C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# d$ L0 E. ]) ]) q0 }. ^! sMr. 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/ e" k' g. L1 L9 v; I& B" I
four-hour confession.- u% s8 F6 @ C3 O- q# H
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common2 C$ z# o2 M1 t1 M
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with3 S- f/ m/ P! i. V& m1 n& j
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.) _' T9 C$ t, J3 z* O0 Q/ S' D( E
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
7 t5 \- R) u' d/ ^make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
9 T O' O; n3 a+ ]( uin the moment.”( Q- m! b+ _5 Y9 |& A* G \
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
2 ?6 x! X' S* ?. @0 L: g4 mOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! O9 ~# S' B, LAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 C9 a* Y7 l N! [However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ @6 I5 Q9 B: e) s1 o# G5 {7 u
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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