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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
# s) c2 Q( d2 y' W3 ?Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! L, n% B* E1 F5 O
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
' ?' k7 P) L. ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 I+ m! y4 b! Y2 n, X' ESources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ w% c c- x; w* j9 Rbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- }: `- y% k9 S* j% H1 g
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”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.& q! }. ?/ f5 e
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
?( c5 u$ v' p' F0 U$ t0 }$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! a+ ~, V$ d, a. F
pure luck.
& F3 x! o2 \, p, U: }: C: A. X”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
. T# b7 R( }& `0 f; I8 u3 y. TIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( ?( U9 \7 c9 O( @The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
% M; U4 F' v, `1 ^+ {; gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall7 R1 ?5 y4 V# a5 Q$ J! P+ a: {
Street watchdogs.$ ^- }9 ]2 M3 \% O5 \! v
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; c% B& D, U {" ^
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
! s7 G! e( l& @3 w7 e" C' Linvestigation.
4 d% T+ v9 E, k- D. P: a( a$ I B+ xWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
& }, _: E+ O3 q- l2 S% [2 Nfour-hour confession., `0 f1 T1 v P! O! }- b6 }" w* F% P; p
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 m* Q$ c, w7 ?0 J; {' _. i5 A8 aknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with' M: { G1 C5 Y2 z- l/ A- Z% \6 Z Z
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: B; O( _. A! b' B& z- S
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to, U; m, h7 u9 ~) R8 N6 X2 U( s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
5 n8 G A% g; E3 k/ w. Min the moment.”
2 b# P1 i# {9 ]0 Q, j3 x: ~" |In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- Z2 b+ |9 W8 L( @; cOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# X4 {- v) Z1 H" i$ j( wAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- t; N5 R: t5 a: FHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
8 ? G4 \& i% j. S! t: } F+ uthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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