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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
& m. T) W! N5 h' a6 K5 QWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN0 |# t7 f3 {' O
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading. k/ ~/ f6 m: e1 Y8 Z8 I: |: P
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
: d4 M& d3 b7 [# h" k6 ]Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
- ]0 R' ~2 \0 x# e5 X& ~bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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& E& K2 |" Q" ?$ h) e”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
: G3 G$ }+ y- U7 k8 ]) K% X”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over+ w, |8 d' Y9 v! n- c% U- k
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers. O. O' S6 T/ |: G$ A) }/ |
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”2 j% H5 ]" b8 d
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin# J+ l/ Z4 U2 M7 l6 |
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall# Z( `% _! U# u4 Q
Street watchdogs.
* Y+ c9 f e2 s”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,. J8 h, ]; c& ~: W2 y. g, Z+ \
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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" ]. D6 b K7 I3 X2 x! VCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 S- e3 E9 z- v t1 ]knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
& i* b4 M! T* ~0 Z: G; w7 qknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.- |* F6 T* q- |/ D. q" a
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* a/ w. p. n6 m p5 S+ p; \' m
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# U" I6 k- a) D4 o! H
in the moment.”8 d0 Y) V0 m( x2 B
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
" P* r* s' X: z( u$ { WOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
N9 W( ^1 l3 ]$ |. FAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- A" i! x+ Q. ^7 e- O4 yHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, P. m2 ~0 g3 d: y2 `6 qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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