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* K% |6 M) {7 l9 V D- e/ Z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& B5 X1 Q8 o+ b' R/ U$ o: l
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
+ l) J+ g6 f$ L8 H# b3 X% F7 F1 g. n& eNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
( w6 c9 M9 L7 Ucharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# \% g$ d/ B7 l# ^& OSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, F2 h4 C0 k7 ~3 M% A; K
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, v7 J6 J# [8 C8 @! E”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
) G, B" H3 `* i”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 D9 m' ]1 @* _( N( F0 C- o7 E" ^0 }% ]
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be, f8 |4 z2 f8 d9 i, o9 C
pure luck.
/ {" O$ P; l) y( H2 G”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
. }' ]2 s/ [) H8 m1 C: w# LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 G& Q) K/ O# G
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
! b8 @1 P! k, e) a+ T1 C& gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
L, b' d6 t( {7 [4 YStreet watchdogs.
: f4 b4 |$ V% ^4 i. R# T* \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ ` K' s O6 v' h vMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. x: e# w$ G/ n* Z" Q, t
investigation.( Y+ e8 c' j8 n9 t \; G
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: P/ r. |# ^7 B; y4 q5 ^. ffour-hour confession.+ Q+ f* z4 Y) J" }
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
" c7 F8 w; y9 N% wknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 v0 X/ H3 y( f4 n4 ~5 ~4 a
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* q7 {- X7 A. m”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( V9 T8 r0 q: g8 Q" M+ g
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught% k m, n1 z) x7 J) S+ E' h4 U- c1 W; U
in the moment.”
4 H$ n+ m/ W* vIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 ~1 ? F/ m4 o- i1 v& d1 q6 h; a
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
: c" X1 g3 n- W- UAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% V/ s. x3 k# _9 @, A7 W B2 m" dHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, i& c) T$ N6 n! hthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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