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% _% c: C h9 R* [% g' r1 p4 K‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
3 O2 a& c& T( hWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN' l3 j( B1 q" p" B
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading6 e* j# i* ?6 G
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
/ {& p" c. R) XSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ C" j$ w. y* t- cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.9 ?% \2 h, m f) C- ^# G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over1 S8 A" N, F/ L& v9 S) B
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' H" K% W1 |. d/ v% w# n' O- I+ ^
pure luck.0 n( {: t! v6 K: Y# h2 Y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers+ o# P2 G6 F/ \; ]
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”& G) f* n @' ], x8 j8 H
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
3 z$ X' t C9 w2 Bmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 ~. H4 R& m! i5 u* S( q3 `
Street watchdogs. q) u2 c9 S1 w7 j6 r: L
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
. T7 [, H$ J% oMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* l2 d8 r. W! b$ v% n# T( {4 r0 d) G
investigation.. s' f8 z/ f* \) h
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling' Z( f2 R* Y* k# L
four-hour confession.
1 r. [' l% Q. F! J- }. w, Z8 ECarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common: `3 j4 o# w; l3 [# J9 h4 i$ t
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: |3 X# `1 y2 Y* e% hknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
1 j7 j" y9 u6 f”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! C4 B8 T) o4 Z8 ~$ s, pmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
; ^' G1 _9 P% H6 |0 M# f z% Oin the moment.”
9 z6 x/ \5 f# b" _* rIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) V- I6 b1 z( u1 r2 b, n4 g7 V
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." l5 Q6 w/ Z: ]* V: f3 ~
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) o( g# x* y$ v2 ` q6 pHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
- c5 W0 a+ s- r9 ~% Q- a# l" l5 ^the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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