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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf$ l+ G$ M- l. K u/ R" k
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
. G- ~# f* F! H& t8 _ o( C; b3 ]/ {Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 x$ t9 J+ g+ h9 O; s6 Y- v' e
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ U8 l8 N7 j/ J) Pcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!0 M/ E2 l: ?8 W
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the# X/ `# F( d o! p& ?% [) N& ^
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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) `6 k2 B! k, c" Q' P& J) m”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
+ x8 \9 B, t2 v j6 G”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
6 E, o9 L( V" E$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be- G% S4 [! u- E, t
pure luck.6 R( ^" N7 E' Y/ M4 v7 o" W
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
) t' w" O. F$ U, U+ s8 _Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 e7 o' b2 o; h
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin( e' j, V+ D5 F2 H; k F: q/ D6 p
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall" F% O% z; O' g6 ^% f
Street watchdogs.
0 w5 t" U% x* |. X0 f; ]”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
5 f# p' R$ H' f) CMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing/ J/ u- t# {0 o) w3 c5 }* F( C) Y- m
investigation.
/ V; u' Q# F" L1 |& G8 t0 xWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- g2 Q" \2 Z$ g0 F! {& T
four-hour confession.
, d" c% e4 B% E# k* {8 V8 nCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 q. d( G" ^9 l* N; nknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 \. P5 A0 b' L3 Z. p5 o3 v5 `knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% q" |! E3 ?) P% }5 ~
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to" w6 O/ n: U0 t6 _6 p1 }. `( d8 y6 F
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 b* ~7 Q; g ]) B( a
in the moment.”
- l1 P0 @9 p, R! t: j* Y$ Z$ z% N) KIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) V5 N" r7 q% n! r1 j3 i, }8 J
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
' \1 w4 U5 i) a4 m3 kAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
7 N( Q( [, ~+ }- x, t) P" f+ `However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
) z; L' W4 D; Z6 z* w7 g9 zthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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