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/ L4 j: u4 c+ ?4 c2 ]‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING0 e3 E" p0 _6 Z' E. M9 x: w+ S
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 g* }/ [" s" s2 C
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading2 x* m5 F' b+ E O( S0 d9 L
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: z2 m2 K& ?& u. nSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the0 J* u2 M0 t0 g8 A" r q
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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/ |- y0 J4 s; ?”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
2 h- I* S" L( A; ?$ H”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% z" c" s, _5 f& ]$ k: Q* G& a7 w$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 l* d! D1 T! Z) A* i
pure luck.$ u" h: G) I7 x, S: ^* ~
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ y2 d( Y$ X& F! n9 R: TIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”: t# L }. Z+ A$ q; _6 F1 ?0 s
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
( r! B b% H2 ?, d" Tmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 S3 s4 M9 Z& h# i9 V+ |8 X7 SStreet watchdogs.
3 Q8 g/ B, [" R' ?0 H% @: v) t”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, A5 _( q7 r( u1 {1 _' n( k
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 {4 K S9 z: I: Ninvestigation.
9 E4 A" m& K' O% _When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! e" t7 n- K9 B9 u# i6 Z8 u, {four-hour confession.
! {% P% [; E) `* B9 JCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ t% v1 P8 v: D$ K2 F
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with! y1 _; j: i0 Z" h
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.( o9 D: O/ n( p
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
- t+ S! [& z% ]make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught1 l) `$ V7 c; {) D# a$ D
in the moment.”
7 F1 I: @$ z; ~- J" N$ P0 iIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of1 h1 q$ v7 C+ Z6 e4 z
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
; O# d) k2 ^$ t" ^All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
0 U/ _" w$ l. ]' b; AHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear" ^) k+ T1 c$ T/ m; M
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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