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1 ]3 e1 H7 U8 q- H+ O5 D* m‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
# |. X; f- V. J$ wWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
- [2 w, |; F3 e7 fNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
) J" i& A T0 ^# F3 ?! Zcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
/ ~2 z9 ^" `4 u/ u( PSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the" l* V! e1 n. {8 e5 y, r
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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7 v$ B( ^& ~, H4 P6 W2 I”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
. d1 r. {: f6 n3 j( d1 }6 V/ H”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
h0 k `1 B5 i1 k! |$ E$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
2 W* Q2 V3 W2 o9 b' ~& Vpure luck.
- u, u6 r; ~) o# ~”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers, v! F3 H2 A# r. X
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
8 S E/ o5 W# w! K* [The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% b3 G/ Q( w# m% E0 P" l& h6 M4 i
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' [, Z8 E" x3 @& f2 \
Street watchdogs.
0 w5 t& D2 N) F; R”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
/ t- A4 Y% t3 @- X5 HMr. 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# M4 Q3 R# }. k9 k
four-hour confession.
! |3 s+ Q& M0 \3 W. sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
2 E0 f- J. P+ Y7 z6 g1 }) Uknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' l; D4 m5 q# Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.. B, N# H* ]5 l
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* }/ k' N0 U9 X4 V/ n5 S6 I3 `
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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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of5 }# W- ]3 W1 {2 B w5 S7 n
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) T5 ^" k) Y7 X4 q. p/ OAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”% H: G( Q( t! v' ^9 j& t8 b1 W6 \
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 \2 v$ [* r+ `* \0 X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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