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' ^& B- W p: A) \‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
5 r$ A j N6 z1 ]' jWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
B- d% W r: DNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading* w9 n% |; @3 X: R/ W4 D4 B
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
4 a8 g8 q4 S( i" o' T! ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
$ W# M! a4 O7 Y6 ?+ xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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* c; y( m/ I' {$ e5 d/ P' D”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.0 T% D A5 O6 n% j m, G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
. q0 u( h+ B- L2 Z d$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! B! d9 m# d( `! l# ]* G" H: |$ {
pure luck.
9 [) ?. d3 [6 J: R) @”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers8 K5 m: M, h0 Y( e& p& y
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”- Y4 n$ Y; Q9 h4 p0 o- N6 A n& ]5 k/ W
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin$ k# P% p; d& x7 h
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- q, N6 J$ e+ l! z+ K# y ~, `) h
Street watchdogs.- R; G4 @6 `; I6 s" O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! |! E/ n. Q! n1 g
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing1 S1 K' U3 O6 j \% ?; N9 O$ s
investigation.) q6 m# N) v/ L
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- ^5 U4 f) Z1 D9 K# K% k
four-hour confession.
$ q: @! [, U1 ^. e: d& SCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common1 `. A2 K5 W/ R0 E9 f! R3 z7 Y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: }! J' J$ y5 x- g/ mknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune., f2 v& k; c. ~
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
5 n/ p& m* T; L3 q8 R- |make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught& i$ F9 h* F9 i" U
in the moment.”
7 o- f3 T1 M+ G& UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
1 `, V% A: q, G: QOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.1 Z: F' E' v! K
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 ?/ O3 K5 }1 N
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- W& h- I: T9 K* s6 O6 l" }" Hthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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