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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
5 x. V! L/ V0 B/ i; R0 tWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN8 c" R* @0 V: w8 o+ l' B. F) }% u
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 Z# Y* s5 ~# G `
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
) _" b( G+ x* L% e, ESources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
3 i8 f5 c7 D x7 J- fbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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- ]- d; e7 k# K4 r& B- S7 q$ b”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider." ?; q( n; [; A% w; ]
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
7 d, H: V' a. N$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
. f6 {3 e' B' |$ _- Dpure luck.; p. B* |( X9 A1 i2 }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
- i M' u0 n4 u) g3 LIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”3 K# D Z8 s+ g8 [3 j0 T" I
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
7 z3 i5 u0 E7 c4 C) gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, R+ g, o! P: j
Street watchdogs.* @3 m5 ]8 ^" \8 x
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,5 J0 m+ h7 r, t. W- S/ }
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
/ m5 e9 {0 `* U [+ ^3 q3 Z6 p, Einvestigation.
1 x% \. D9 K7 e' F# ^* TWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling" {4 ^% G0 J1 a0 D' P# h
four-hour confession.9 x6 x4 { E# v& V- u
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 |# r1 n( k# |5 b+ U0 c/ D, X
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with2 I8 S. ?3 _& F' c; r7 B
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune. N9 k9 n) y6 c, O5 ]9 o, L
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
- E& X6 z* Y0 ~9 m dmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
" j, @1 j1 _0 j( B& [0 ^; F* I+ Z) lin the moment.”
# P1 Q% ~8 x) z6 u- U: rIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: R7 p3 x' z4 m" {6 \
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.& E* ^6 p/ _# _) N. \3 N
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' L) @. }1 C+ K' K5 L2 u7 S
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 F0 T+ E. z4 ^4 f' ^8 |% W+ i# p, }
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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