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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf6 Q9 u K ?! |9 N }0 G* [% A% g+ M
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
% _9 k" P5 G! j1 mWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; J. o! S% i3 q5 F7 ]) F& i/ q
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 e' G0 c/ j% U) [& S9 y* B9 lcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
+ E6 N( U( M. y0 v" L: y7 FSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
. q1 r# p7 @7 z3 V( G+ J) Gbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January& l4 G& @6 U2 k& M' N2 R9 S
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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.
# o. o6 a9 x1 d! V+ k6 `$ l& N1 u”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 `: A! N1 D; ]' J( u) r" `, q
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
4 l8 y9 ^! y5 M5 i* {$ {9 F# N% I- ~pure luck., _7 V2 B3 t" j+ i D* c A
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
: b2 n) y# \/ v Z# H+ t6 eIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”- F1 b8 z4 Z" Y
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ u, |' \/ H0 T% mmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall8 I, ?6 E# J, P5 O# a2 l
Street watchdogs.
' h6 m9 \0 `6 U, B& c$ P$ e" H! R2 |”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,* M5 K& r& A# r# s4 L. X2 F
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ U! J8 b$ ^0 e6 S, n% [
investigation.2 ^, _8 F, y$ |" k9 N& S: ]' n% F
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% w( [$ F8 ~* \: z& ^! i" ^8 A. W0 L
four-hour confession.% b' O$ Z: G. ^4 q! r5 J2 w9 U
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- b" r6 J% U/ }$ E4 A. Y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' Q X/ J1 S' l
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.# F- H4 a5 n" r1 X
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to; T3 q+ p# J/ J9 c U- ^
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
: C& i! f$ P" R! B- Min the moment.”
7 }8 I3 Q8 \' W/ d, X2 Y7 RIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! v4 T9 Q/ R( v- R. U/ D2 p
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 ^" k% {6 o6 G# O6 \1 R6 s6 S e
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 B8 z; r' ?% s1 F7 J7 |, @
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
E3 a6 I+ K+ x m0 H' |the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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