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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING; J) ^# c1 u* d4 r& i( s, T O
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
" U5 |/ w# ]: s9 K z% j3 PNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 J0 N$ o1 ~7 Z* n g3 G8 Ncharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
6 {9 ~7 L& `5 _8 nSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
) ~* k: `8 P& l& jbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January1 v6 a+ h: _" f# D* G, i+ V2 O
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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.+ K$ J% d3 \( ?
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over H* h# L$ m2 V
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ y: N& d+ g6 n2 d( S% R
pure luck." H- B' f5 G# K/ G: c
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers. D& E+ G9 h: W& [3 B' R1 ^' u! i( t
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”0 h/ @. p$ q7 K5 V& W# Y
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 `. R: R' _! ~- F: }; m) T* }made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, x4 Y) }9 G# }: p
Street watchdogs.0 _3 ^8 T& z$ I- T( d) _. Y- F
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,, u* }* i1 b ~- z$ B8 d
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! n9 z& [# P$ J8 r) k
investigation.% _; T. k' J% i: j- D
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 R) Y# N5 w- f2 vfour-hour confession.
) ^" ] ]& \' M1 ]$ {# s, @- D' QCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
3 F( s0 S8 i/ C* R! R2 tknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with9 f$ Q7 u: d4 z4 t. E
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
( f4 _ l) H. h1 v4 u! U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
9 b' B" R, w5 q3 Jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& S r- k- T% z
in the moment.”
0 F9 y4 H4 L% @In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
" u* J) ?+ q0 E& LOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' O) b+ q' |4 T a1 ]All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 i( B9 a. h* U( g3 d6 ~9 O6 ]However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ h6 f6 w- b/ u0 g8 r! @3 l6 ~3 k
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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