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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING1 g* Q+ K( S. d7 X* o, p" y
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! c3 k0 t' d6 W% I* @NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading" S% t9 `# m; [, K8 g: g
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 L1 R1 Z; [6 W
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 c4 o7 t# m. d* bbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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2 u0 B9 Q4 G8 E8 S* H, }+ ~”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.- P* t, I! O$ @# U+ r; {' O) ~2 f0 v
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over- n6 v$ U8 [4 \; _0 F- w
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ Z7 K1 p K4 s3 I5 ]
pure luck.( T! V1 t8 Q+ e. Q& U; N
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
) U4 D# T+ T5 ] K4 D! fIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”% Y* U6 Z# ~0 |7 P/ y
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
) A1 W# {% M6 e4 T E' H9 t Bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
' D9 j) H" c7 w$ G! i6 M( ]. }Street watchdogs.
, L; y! O9 m4 M& Y- x1 E) x”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,0 z' {/ {2 C% [6 z0 J
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing3 }* v$ H. U6 p+ U5 e
investigation.
; b d* i8 b( ~0 O* E8 }When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling3 L$ {; I" {9 m
four-hour confession.
3 C$ Y( `" `9 w7 x o1 hCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common* i2 ?- P" A1 G/ `& C
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 k' f/ k) _8 W8 B' e$ C. cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune." K8 ~% ^4 a) |& Y% d
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to$ Y8 K5 p, n1 @! H/ k
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught/ q |+ g& o7 r n$ I S& `
in the moment.”. Q6 S; _( e! U) c5 F# f
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of, t. y" O2 D7 n$ B/ l
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.. ?: C9 s9 q3 s: i! c# h
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- A! v5 h2 g+ W: d3 THowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
) k: i5 W. C) Ethe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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