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" t% p+ g, }3 D$ P1 @; ?) `) m0 n‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ q" Q/ K/ D, L! [/ t6 LWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 Y( R8 B2 x$ S) Y9 W2 C) D0 n
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 F8 G- I" V4 D0 [8 Q) E! Wcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!8 [. D. [0 b6 P8 ~& O3 ^
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. v& N+ s+ g( Q% L, K8 D& P4 Y
bizarre 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.
# C1 p+ _% i! F& j' n”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, s7 i! O k) N; {/ e4 Q' ^8 M; a
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" P e3 j' ?6 _pure luck.
" q2 Q9 S! V8 e5 o# _) P”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers9 u; Y- m- j& D0 t# j9 B
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
' a. A2 `4 h) g- o& |% TThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin: w5 F# w3 [9 h- v( m
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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1 i7 ?4 F8 `" b8 z c8 Y4 c q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 N8 ^" p, a) l5 L
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling5 Z$ A5 F4 f" ], W$ u
four-hour confession.6 c, W# B- |/ E
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common4 x/ i$ f0 s/ t- _, z4 w( v# a% k
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 r& _# z- m& lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
& l* ?2 @. ]4 {”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to2 Z) x, p7 u( o! V
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught; r; c" w3 X+ I& P" D
in the moment.”" R' E6 c4 `$ H. G
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of6 |. N6 ^ g* l
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. J1 P6 k' u* @5 I3 U% e2 C! Z( N
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”! O2 Y0 J! L9 S! U( H W
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
8 d+ M+ }* Q- I) [2 I! Mthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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