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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf/ o9 u4 ^( ^/ e# q# e
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; U1 K! ^4 c' C, `Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ ?; [$ @5 \, a; L5 p4 |, i" oNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- h8 B9 l6 O q8 @' icharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& w, m7 t+ W1 x4 w8 w8 U2 gSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the! W: T: E8 }6 D7 E0 C5 K
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 q, s2 z5 Y( u8 [# Y2 j
28.
) ^& ^8 O b3 [; ^”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.1 c% N F, a+ a' e {
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 c2 @3 J0 M: r3 U3 ]/ [
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
; Z) }1 q8 }& u* _% g7 `4 Opure luck.
8 }3 z8 M& _* a% A8 j& u* 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, R+ ] \ z& T. ^
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ n# w" F3 R4 r3 E
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin" V9 I5 v0 g; [1 a+ V+ H
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& B; L- d+ m! A
Street watchdogs.
1 R" G/ Y4 b* ~' `# _2 A”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, V/ H, X7 e9 }: S, Z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing% z" c1 y+ D, C6 v! h
investigation.
$ n. A& W; O5 sWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
2 i% I' `: ^) h. ufour-hour confession.
6 L/ W1 X: v- k" JCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
/ W: g' Y) m+ ]. P9 s( t8 k, lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 N& h/ s7 e+ Kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: q9 K1 {& z) o5 L. V
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
" N! y1 l7 d% U$ p+ U) ]1 B) [make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
% H) B4 ?* b1 @ l3 rin the moment.”3 J* P) h; k# w2 ?. o+ G
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of9 {. \; `7 t1 `6 y R* Z9 @ ^* \7 p
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 K, W6 ^! x0 w( R! p5 G6 _
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”1 W1 q: e" Q9 I9 e( i5 o! {
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' Q d' i' S8 o- ?& R, H
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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