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: s; o# o5 T- U5 E‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
# _1 v+ O/ `) t/ P! iWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! G8 l) U8 L3 R y
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading: N$ U! X+ j8 i5 ]9 ^0 q! q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
% S7 M2 {+ g& O! c* g, x( d2 VSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the7 x4 m6 z- m8 E* M, Y2 f8 f( w
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 g, C. Q. i1 x9 ^, G {" e- B; d”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 R% L% w' k# P2 _
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 i( p0 s1 q$ I1 H2 _& p
pure luck." V- ^% j \, a( P' ], U \4 F
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers% f# Q' a1 x4 ~5 ~! R1 k
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 r0 e- ~- N8 n3 Y5 u5 }" L0 A! g0 MThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
5 |& B; x0 S6 v' g$ pmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- k0 E! M: S% l& T2 G: E% K
Street watchdogs.) E. K Y8 H5 Y
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- z" E5 ~9 V1 u" a; z* C$ n8 d% WMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- |8 d' e9 Z' I5 x- \$ [1 hfour-hour confession.
# A. H: [& W+ W8 ^8 LCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ L; o, ~* [4 X \# L$ K
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
, b P! Y' s, g3 Y2 E0 D. kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! X4 L6 [5 W9 Q+ W”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
+ s( O- x/ W: m1 {make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught; d9 O1 m: d* v
in the moment.”
0 d- r# t6 g& _1 n0 \/ m/ B0 m& PIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. b4 }) d! K% f" i1 `4 b+ S, O7 TOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 x# q" \8 u2 S+ Z+ ~+ jAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 r# N% D8 }$ J' O
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear- \1 E2 l4 T+ n5 o; u, S; z
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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