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9 u! d9 S% d7 n1 Z‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ Y7 X! l& b; z5 a8 E0 A0 R
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN, U+ b3 J* s" u9 L6 M3 J5 M2 r: f
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading! q* ^) Y) A9 A
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!( Q7 G0 ]' q* G: X% [ F; z
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. M2 r z& g% p L% m
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
; K8 r" U3 U1 A, s”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
9 l1 }7 `" `/ H) p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
4 Z( O- x$ a9 }5 h7 `) R) g" qpure luck.
% B: y* e( l$ ^- l”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
, n7 V& L3 Q! O6 q/ C8 [0 zIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”6 h7 T# U9 Z8 x# _) R5 m k
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin4 v8 V# [5 [8 O) Q" O* O- I
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 x# h) s3 V) t5 b
Street watchdogs.
& [, r0 U$ W: P. S* L# W# z6 d8 {”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
& ]* o1 D! j: q1 ?) `" x& g- i9 [Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. G4 \; p. Q0 W9 |" s
investigation.
" S4 P# H* a8 r) l. GWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! y1 C7 O; C ?; ^/ R+ P" {- Ifour-hour confession.9 Z9 E4 H4 x0 X. m. W
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
3 I) N; x6 b( ?1 V! C; V) ^5 `1 o7 u6 Wknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
) F+ C# o" ?4 H7 Y! [* [ ?& u0 gknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
% [" J. `' w+ ^' n7 U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to5 j' f/ }% `9 [( |. _
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) W" d7 g" a D/ I
in the moment.”
# S% z$ x! u# _" C9 _In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 q! g) W* _' t1 k, ?1 z; B) B6 c
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
* v: l" b' [; \8 P, fAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
4 z: g j' t/ f/ d( |However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
4 s1 ?7 u8 a' P2 B5 Nthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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