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* X" A( o ~* j; @9 C/ a) b‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING. Z; h- T9 M7 A/ H/ ?! m" A
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 N) |5 `3 j3 T: {
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading W2 p7 ^$ |8 S- N( i
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- H& [( ^, H7 B7 F, _
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 j5 l8 G- l2 Z' Vbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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) I. r: ?6 h) c, M”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.+ {5 {) x2 A& b& L7 ?
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
& G) U% Q& _' @+ n$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be) e) t5 M3 B: E, N# f. t- D
pure luck./ [# a1 B0 e# k
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers1 }0 N# T" c: N& E
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 i: w& k( h# x! EThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 t# d4 P0 o& \
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ k+ Q, }0 F, q3 t, V* H3 T9 L/ N5 mStreet watchdogs.
; M, r& W0 q7 \3 s( _' |. C* _”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
4 e3 X7 c9 L. h" G7 OMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 ?2 m& y! M; Y0 v2 q
investigation.
( l: N' i' J B; x7 y9 CWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling$ @4 j0 g- M3 ^% b
four-hour confession.4 U5 [: `2 X8 ^, k
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- W2 ?" [) ], R
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
2 |: x5 q- S4 i" [0 n3 r7 Tknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
; j3 _; A$ E$ M1 J& P”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to# n6 @6 E6 V. _ [
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught1 J w, n% r. J+ B! g9 j1 x. v8 F" Q# V
in the moment.”
$ M: x3 \0 f9 p, S7 t8 O( kIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
' s4 _2 [* j5 s* y( jOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.! F$ a M5 a J! ~$ k
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
' G9 ?/ O( p: e" ~# DHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear3 @. U$ H: A# K- A
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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