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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
- h# b, f/ ^ U/ R/ nWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 E% x( ?0 }# O, x+ _
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% q2 b2 c5 ?( Z- ^4 ?charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!$ f8 O3 E% m. G8 h( a1 ]7 c/ b" G2 v8 z
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the: ^* f- }- ^% T0 F. Q
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" [( w2 e! }6 w$ x9 M
28.
/ Y9 o4 E9 {$ \# V& Z& K/ R# s+ M6 n' H”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.' v9 V3 m: P0 }9 c& |) D
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, c9 g8 C \" w! `
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be1 S: ?' \) D9 W/ i% y% C T9 k
pure luck.
% T+ O! V4 O: K8 _4 C1 o7 U0 D) M* s0 t”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers% `/ |8 I; a7 E I
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) o* R6 _ Y( d; {6 VThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. D6 r D. Y1 }8 j. y6 z- Fmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
) u# Z+ [5 P3 P/ nStreet watchdogs.
' M9 w& n3 @) E”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,0 M5 p& M3 \' l: ~: }
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
k9 [ p* `# o+ w% H4 h, j# ninvestigation.9 {+ k3 ?: A/ T: S' o5 v" s
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" D H. z0 r9 Q( R& f. Kfour-hour confession.
, @+ u5 \1 J5 {0 p" vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common2 Z4 B9 @. V. y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ R( b1 N, k* P5 Z+ u5 }' Fknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.0 l" f3 l6 n# X8 Q3 X
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
# k8 q1 z! d: S8 Tmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught/ V& [1 P! ~ y4 r. Q" B+ M
in the moment.”
7 _( h$ d3 j: k* ~; W. ~! T& _In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
H( W; V# C) R6 a* A' W* oOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.8 s- ^! Y( {) a# K
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 ?1 i* X' }) M2 T
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
2 p8 p7 I/ b. a7 _" }the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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