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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING$ u" Q! M( }% Q5 @8 s
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 @ G/ p) x7 r, w8 \9 H% G1 H( c3 gNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 q# o, R! s/ P1 j# l
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
8 e1 H& B1 c I4 NSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 S* c5 |, H+ Cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January8 M# I D; d: a) T' H9 A, ~
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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. y; W3 u# h/ g, u/ z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over. J2 U: o( I4 v' L) u
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be7 l3 d$ O" Y, m s/ `; q4 s, m
pure luck.0 J/ |& Z7 N4 L/ U$ Y/ f
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# }5 |" W& T5 @! E# amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ Y, v+ A7 M1 e+ ~ _5 b4 N; u
Street watchdogs.
/ p; T; C" k/ |& W”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ V0 Q% s4 v, |, _# i6 }. h2 W
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
$ D8 ^# S$ n ^; b% y* r0 Hinvestigation.
6 {7 g0 O( ?0 S ^1 DWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling3 Y' p* l& N, Z2 R. [3 Q& w
four-hour confession.3 S4 ^; [) a+ l9 f" A& ?% D4 d# J. R
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common1 e% Z7 F* |: q0 y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: a" N: l+ \1 O2 x4 ?knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
0 a9 v$ W1 l4 A7 }& Z" m- ~”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to. l4 B, g2 z# M5 I5 L% t
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 ? y6 C3 ~- ~$ Kin the moment.”8 z; N1 e8 s8 o# U( h5 }
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of8 l; }% Y' a7 ?9 M% P
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ A* K7 p# J+ e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ s# k! z5 ]) P3 YHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear0 g" V! q! D) a1 Y# ?
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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