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. ~1 J) X4 _" q4 Y' H, a- d+ A‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING* m% \, K* a; f$ B: m
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN r8 F" Y+ |( [' ^! N. K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading, n7 ]8 p' Q$ S! u( N N7 d" [
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256! I2 w) W5 ?, u- k. `$ O
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the- U$ [% Q' B/ U) z; M9 G% |/ k
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January' p% I# r8 s# N& u# a
28.
4 s! ?& I- B- W, Z”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ d& ?" A B. e+ d& y- p# T
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, w' D7 a6 a& e+ [( i
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be: I7 T& X7 s' ?
pure luck.$ Y8 y( Q$ I3 a" O) N7 \
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers8 d+ x# u. I7 \1 n
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
/ \' l0 ?2 Z5 }7 h- A% QThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin. d$ p, S2 T% Z: I+ J5 T
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
" z7 b! S# G! s& i1 ^$ p1 tStreet watchdogs.% Q; Y5 k. M7 k+ n0 B3 _
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- T4 D" [7 m' y" i% D: ]
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
- j7 k# [6 P: x( Tinvestigation.' J1 V& V1 T% }) W$ |
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling+ h& Q) i9 U- H
four-hour confession.
5 z) z$ t X/ P0 Y/ KCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common M. b( P1 ], W( q
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with( q; s5 p2 P. A) m4 k) g* H5 l
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.0 @! s* u4 b& t6 S2 Q& \7 p2 [
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
7 M2 U' f: g- B6 |+ h a3 umake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
9 n% w9 k0 i! V# I/ B$ Y( j" cin the moment.”8 P. f7 q; W0 j) q
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 X5 w& L* v- Z7 \9 ^0 yOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# N7 A3 a0 _) @0 I' N$ UAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ e; F5 {7 L. @. h; j0 a; _: \
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ m5 r b; ^! T; k; {( K: s
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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