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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING4 _2 G5 ~- I1 s2 K8 m
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" O2 i2 \( Y3 s/ {% {5 B* S9 |: fNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
5 _* ^4 m( o, j8 B9 G0 m7 rcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* B9 {- Y2 z1 p9 A7 J0 kSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 v4 N& q4 L& d i$ `+ _" e: \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.
/ D! i2 k' A. M' h5 A, r”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( q0 R- M2 | u6 D" [$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
]- A' @3 ~# `, ]pure luck.
/ R* K. _1 A! G' ?9 p2 d”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers- l8 \5 N9 N' v/ C; Y& h: D
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”) c* S. ?+ W# g
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
2 K+ \# D& O# `7 ]) C6 [made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" Q: f' x5 Y# q; m2 uStreet watchdogs.
6 q. V& J* @8 K0 H- d; J/ e9 H$ K. N”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; A* i/ ]3 W4 A& Z# v: Y
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 mindboggling
+ v, o& s) Y$ x; C! s7 S9 a$ zfour-hour confession.
+ B6 b( r2 c9 t8 x* XCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* e- n; |3 A2 `- A) O/ u
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 f$ J0 h0 m$ e; fknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) I& u! w' w; ]4 e”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 `$ {1 X/ N: M7 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
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 l! I; g$ e& m$ N; r* f2 m* f i
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.' q; \, D O! R) [- Z K L
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”/ h3 s+ Z2 z3 j* t, R& t$ d' y
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% {& L, O6 b1 U5 n6 ^# d Uthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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