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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING8 X$ e$ b, q; ~( d7 P
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 X6 ~# F/ ~2 U$ ?/ x* m R4 _NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading$ B9 Q* p( G( r/ F& C* `. h) y
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- R8 C; f, s% I0 ^
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 f. ~% X; f5 }3 F5 f8 k& }bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January3 R; p6 u- @: r$ w
28.
* `- Y+ e+ }6 g y* s" E”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.6 Y3 \* S- \% r: c; [0 w& W
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' w- H3 b, B7 [! U% P+ O$ e' F! Q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be- v. Q" c0 h7 l( i
pure luck.
/ r: H2 s# E& H! Q/ U”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ s. L2 P a5 g( K. E2 W$ O6 A
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”( D6 j8 j \7 S5 G- y8 F
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
1 F0 N/ h. O% Cmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ Q2 h9 f; N6 F6 R; O
Street watchdogs.
& {. b* \7 G6 K4 T- N. b; w, T”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
6 W/ f! u0 H) Z% _* jMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# G+ W: C7 h* _7 G8 {investigation.
& K# o, E- `2 Q" [/ _& R1 e5 |When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
) g& y/ N0 z/ ~+ zfour-hour confession.
9 _) W X8 i" UCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) C% O+ \! A6 p3 u, P; A: N/ F, _ S
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 T {$ ~, h, }7 b- o$ P# b& nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.5 \0 o2 R! D6 y* ~
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to8 z5 p( `/ e, @
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) U1 H/ w/ W4 }" G9 f% |
in the moment.”
& m3 C+ p" ]1 l& z! KIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- e5 A; F) ]- C$ d4 _
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: ]3 e4 P* g4 X. O: T4 {
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”# v: x7 {* R9 s! N; a) X N0 }
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
& U- u% {' E, z; z" n8 }& {the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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