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c* y0 s% p! C, F3 j‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
/ C* U0 C% n& b/ p WWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN& J% Z* v) o9 X3 f
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading( S: v* O3 w/ H! d3 z0 D5 h) R7 y
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!2 E8 c5 Z' k! e; h
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& D' ~% e! Z/ F: V* L* \" h* U* ~
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.7 G8 d' R# u( T" U/ N; W. p
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: F5 I: o9 Z3 Z7 q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be. F! e0 O3 `. m: _5 E7 N. \
pure luck.
# F# }4 ^* W( d& F, K2 O”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers n( L$ q( ]1 C1 W$ a+ H; x
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”8 D- H0 m' B; }# r( K9 O4 r" Q
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
: B4 d& F0 v" S$ @/ Rmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& j- w4 {4 X6 k- s( L0 D: w Z
Street watchdogs.0 G5 K& F3 w. F; U* C6 [# ?9 L
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 S& H- ^8 i+ c3 xMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! Y6 z, \; B* Cinvestigation.
: C# k9 a9 z0 G6 u( e' gWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# l1 T1 h1 N; ^0 {5 H
four-hour confession.$ M' `- U- D* b0 W0 _! ~' B8 o6 l
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
- Q5 X8 c% a4 T: U* X1 c I* jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( e% ^# z B0 ?: V+ s0 H) E- eknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.3 O+ h6 r. }( D# M8 k% f: v
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
" Q! _' \0 J+ |" V5 y# X3 `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
8 q' m0 `7 [, E- N zin the moment.”
/ n- ^/ |/ x% ^, F' qIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 K9 ^& q& x3 W* f: u7 ?Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 `/ E" [3 a6 W9 hAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
* z+ Q6 M5 t/ G) e, h3 |However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ K/ ?% O) C4 j( n `3 t% S
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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