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$ k1 x6 D5 Z! q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING! K* T+ v9 Y& T: v( s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 j* ?+ a; C9 Y# f1 M/ ~NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
$ Q/ F; Q" W Z% r, |: [0 Hcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
8 {1 L0 r4 }5 k) a" VSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
" K0 N& y+ b2 x& Q4 l& n! p! dbizarre 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.( u4 J+ i/ A8 ?2 z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over% p* F8 b! n p4 v7 @: ^) O
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
' ?$ J3 B2 z [% n3 ipure luck.
# O, l0 W3 v% n! q: @* J9 Z" |”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers* u" l8 O2 p& r: j5 h- G. K( H+ [
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ B! q& q9 a. ^2 FThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 c/ F' O0 {) K% ^ m! v: t& g& xmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
l- a$ I, U% |3 m- H4 SStreet watchdogs.
0 n+ @ D. Z2 W% g f& U”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
8 L+ e7 a5 V2 QMr. 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
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4 G% s; ]& P/ x. x, c& N. y$ ^Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
; [: h) l o: m! [knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, U3 b1 v+ M/ J% @9 U% G
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.8 E( ~1 g$ d) h1 M: s9 R
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to" H$ X* ~ H6 l0 k L
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
) V2 L& F' i1 t. v; i: S9 Lin the moment.”
5 ?/ S# D4 v4 Z0 D9 |In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 C$ a+ A7 i& w" `5 f
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
0 S- E9 b7 T, q& t! z7 \+ `5 |0 vAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
3 c# H' R, o) z. X1 }$ DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ G& o/ K: T; _) v# l
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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