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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf$ x& i- B5 {0 u5 ^4 K8 R
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
c- a$ ]( Y- ]% ?' _8 G) O3 wWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: F$ i& q# B- a( x& oNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
7 l5 r" C& p* y/ T z: S! w! M6 Gcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 `- I2 m1 x) S8 _' QSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the0 X0 U; [. z/ `5 U0 R$ s+ p
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January3 y, e, V$ E7 G' L* j- p
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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.9 Z+ v! i2 [& K3 f$ v5 N
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- w2 y! ~! O. Z1 A' z7 i* M$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ K" o% x6 F' t0 M& f6 ?% p
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers# @" B* O7 V" s0 L; u; C2 ~4 B
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
6 [5 N8 U0 ]8 `0 Z7 L) J2 c6 UThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
8 U) x$ |4 D5 P* R3 k) Ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 L* s2 u" f( d' ~
Street watchdogs.
2 P1 U. O1 `" s- |3 j, j- l”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. ^( H; L: x5 Q+ Z5 ZMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
Z) e: O3 g% C" t- ^4 Sinvestigation.4 v6 P9 [$ ]4 ~1 I3 j
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling/ K+ S" M8 A! \- V
four-hour confession. b8 [, D- D: f4 t) t
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; o, D' q9 _0 F( O3 |2 H3 M. u
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
; X8 P. X, X: g m: qknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 `$ a1 C" t3 [! ~% V
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to3 P, t1 }* x8 X' [3 ^3 @6 d
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught% a& Y8 Y& V! G- ]- Q% i
in the moment.”# K- H; @# m" J
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: `9 ~ w+ d- I6 Y' w- X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.# [8 B# h. q+ q; t5 a( ~( w; d- r D1 @
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( c) S6 \% g( y+ @ n- g
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear! a4 d& r. c9 T' e; l% ~
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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