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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf7 B/ d" W9 K. ?3 h, e
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
' v' R% P7 y+ M; c s: @8 OWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ V* @4 Z! ]; y: a
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading4 x- O1 i( c0 M$ w! u+ u' z
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 t$ ?! y: Q2 W
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
9 o# R+ D, G, o9 U' p; I" Q9 mbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January$ p# a; `: X8 ] `9 V. k7 h5 g( Z
28.
4 P* b- n" W* k, X) A1 z0 v”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.( t- ], [7 j5 a5 e+ |% D7 l% L, {
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 f; |. p" n5 E+ ?5 z
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ t. Q5 b/ R5 U
pure luck.
9 s9 K2 t% u- h- q- v7 Z. Y2 s”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 l. w& Z$ P- n9 C! b; h7 a
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
* Y' `, m0 H! O) z* z; l$ YThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin. e) r+ z: R w y: C0 [
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
5 L3 ~8 `3 ]1 R2 T* t" B) y2 sStreet watchdogs.
8 v( A. C4 ?: L G- Y8 I0 T”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 D( s7 s! L9 V. _% ]2 X6 V6 sMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 T; P, W0 y6 e: w& p( D7 t# f
investigation.2 P& P! l+ }0 D3 E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling0 F; B) h; s' V5 h& A
four-hour confession.
! d( @. s" Q* |4 N4 \* GCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common& E* l/ }9 |3 S: f, H
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
; i: n Z( n, [( O0 cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ m$ M( e9 f) _+ w5 p% L”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
$ ^; l% i+ e2 ]. p" z" v* ?make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 A! a8 K e. F& ^# fin the moment.”
7 L/ o4 Z7 B* i3 D3 lIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) Z2 p8 Q: Y: v8 f- } w& G
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 F- a; \1 P$ O' Q5 J: {# w3 KAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- \9 O/ V* n3 V0 z7 t( e2 D+ |; G' xHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
% E! M0 _& H( T% x- Y5 Xthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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