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$ o% c* y5 v4 a3 w/ N‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING( K6 T4 Q" M( {) u
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 {, H) F* |( W1 {( H; |
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading, @7 J; V- V# w* @" ^3 }+ @
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
; \, P2 @' P" c4 GSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
u9 X7 e; t7 z2 @bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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, ?# ?+ H7 o! s" O! l”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
: ` n4 i' F, }”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over+ L) g# d* F" p
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& }9 D- _, Q. ]
pure luck.
! W: l% w1 {2 l3 e4 z7 U# T$ g! k”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! y) w+ c1 x$ T' Z J
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& K' i( N+ G. V X9 r" j- PThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% R- L: h$ U5 K2 M/ U
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall) B8 Z" i( O% ?% l
Street watchdogs.
/ ?. t# e# r' Z1 s/ t4 s1 e”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ w1 y& g# D; \- Z4 P
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ L `' F5 e- C5 w" h+ w
investigation.: ]- w" B/ Y$ @; u
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# J! W/ j; [$ [9 x2 j7 R
four-hour confession.
9 e Q9 s% I' z [- }& {" vCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
. k U; D4 G8 |" D( Q" d, L- h! D) hknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with# N4 N0 w) d% f$ O( A! B
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; b" A4 _0 y* s( p' J0 \
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& i, Y9 {! [5 q" s1 H- u
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught2 o4 w& \8 p) F8 M' N
in the moment.”4 C/ ~1 o! A" m
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 D. P0 R' P9 m# S5 a5 T
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.( }1 D6 |, V& o4 D. x6 K7 }
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- X) y+ W% N6 s' h& R% f9 D" _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
; ?. n. n( D8 V; z+ X! s* mthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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