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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) {; K8 k$ x. o9 ^Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN, y( m, w- {) A5 \+ S+ K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading5 m* q0 M3 u2 p) _
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
N4 V. M; A" v9 @Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 o4 _ ~1 p/ R! ?
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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+ Z1 k& }& ^0 {' p”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
$ G+ m& y# S) }( M4 H/ c% M”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; ^4 g( J% D- _: O% A6 H$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) _) ^3 q" z ?+ x' {, _pure luck.
6 O: o4 ?' Z! @9 @”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ g2 S- {% Y% u* s2 r1 k% c6 bIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
. `' U" t) `1 L& M- D0 UThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* v& s1 N- z& B0 Bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
. B) J+ W# ]$ _Street watchdogs.
1 A; Q$ H3 o! ^3 M4 S3 H”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; I3 Y5 H5 o- Q8 R6 d) |
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 I/ O& i9 a2 f; |1 m0 g6 k
investigation.! k1 b' z9 I) W7 _ L f* f/ a: \
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. G. f+ p9 }+ Q
four-hour confession.+ x G8 L( P" z& n
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
1 \* K _& p* `# c L- c3 S( g7 A/ gknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with) O$ b) T1 p, z7 E6 @
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.- Q* G' k8 R, ?" X- z3 t. c4 Y7 @
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to4 s8 r. L) e8 |! K% v+ m
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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6 k5 ]: r7 I% y$ dIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
' y" T$ [1 D: |. z/ }3 x3 ~Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# a' n6 k+ U0 J& \- D# B: z5 {8 TAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”$ L; @) P- E# y3 v& c) d& z; V
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* e2 `" [4 `' s1 i: f% F. s
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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