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& ^- b6 d2 u: q" u7 `" |% h1 A‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) O6 p& e: g; i4 t, \Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! t# k& ^% v$ A/ Y& I
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& U4 A( J! u: G' T3 ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! D9 K7 z8 R" U& L; h
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 f6 B4 d+ T3 F* s2 p
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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( `& L" U( x7 C* r”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
; Q8 J0 M0 k- A9 L”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& s5 t: c1 I: j0 d4 E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be% a% b9 Z6 ~0 O1 ?* T% [; S
pure luck.
: ]2 `4 c* o" N8 g0 K* g”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers, h7 @& p( b: \1 ~2 l) z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ p7 [$ Y; ~6 [9 u& @! d o9 bThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin* u: x# S, [9 r8 b& x6 r z' ?
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 X* v6 m: _2 F7 H% QStreet watchdogs.
8 f( q7 U7 ^. M! M$ \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# S3 j: v3 }& R- x: b3 Q9 ^8 ZMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
" B8 E; x* P3 y' Q" H, |1 xinvestigation.$ E5 E9 [5 z, p9 s9 W" i
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling8 }2 }2 M5 s' R6 ?/ q# M
four-hour confession./ r. R# r- z! Y6 ~! p9 }
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
" _1 b E& a" z. y9 Cknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with. G. ^. t5 C5 }( N$ S' A2 C
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.* T5 o$ {7 J+ ?5 f
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
{. l; }6 s; r+ ? `1 W$ Omake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught! a1 Y b. {; K+ W& J
in the moment.”
6 Z: U1 z' _( P; uIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ M$ r% g5 m* o7 h* u3 e3 b9 f
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.4 m" v; `. X" g: f+ ]( h. b
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- a) S9 |) z1 I" C. A2 R! f# n; W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 \, Y. m) J3 h7 z, M, W
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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