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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
$ t, u3 I/ }3 d" a% I) tWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
' {/ Y' C2 B. {) Z9 B- ]" TNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
) C; y4 {1 H# ^charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 h# E# z: K. y2 c# ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the$ S# p$ v6 l- r3 W" n! \( ]
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January" R* S* s9 s5 V4 A/ R5 y( L
28.
( N/ y2 x) [2 M3 k0 I7 J”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.3 ?9 ]1 i* W. d }6 g( ^
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over f7 ?! p, M+ y5 R, I9 }# i. ?0 ~
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be9 d3 j2 U7 {( k @( {
pure luck.
$ b: V/ u1 S5 J( |% ^ ?, _”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers) g/ B. m2 W% Q" N" o, t d$ z# b
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% n7 s0 f3 `$ z1 }; W
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
8 W+ V: K/ T- } J; {2 Imade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall/ z$ P- R, J1 i8 K( E
Street watchdogs.1 {& V: l1 a" y+ f J
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,1 W8 H: f/ l: ]( w7 B- q/ s6 I
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 t3 i5 V6 z6 D# [& J! e+ J; E" Uinvestigation.
" F* w! h5 f, f. c ^When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
4 ]9 u, F0 u6 C% l7 S" ifour-hour confession.
! ~8 d5 _3 T5 d5 d, wCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common+ f: e( u2 h# T$ p w" H4 l6 d; Y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" ^, s" ^4 k' L! a. a0 }) e
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.6 q7 c9 A) |8 ^6 q6 ]" U
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to( F& O4 |& z) G8 j
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 z; d0 X/ w2 L |( F8 b( u7 sin the moment.” q8 } g: k/ ^
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of2 V) s U8 I$ i9 Z v* ]- k
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.0 P, }4 W \& J4 n
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' j/ @7 G; P7 j( X# P, e2 N5 a& |1 q8 O
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 A2 G$ C1 P" F& ]5 P
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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