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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING& [7 H1 @3 h( N" w% C# n8 O
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ u1 U6 H' g& C) v
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading& k- V1 y& N1 S$ }% p' F' f5 A R
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
2 W$ a% `2 d. G2 [Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the* M4 B; @$ ~3 {
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 g- r) c/ f) ^, J
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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.5 t/ Q2 c p4 i
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over$ C/ w- r( X7 ?5 h
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
( b0 s0 W7 ~. e `# M6 ~pure luck.( o4 ^5 ?& j$ E" q- U% F+ }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers7 t7 ~) `7 R4 K2 f% J
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 ~+ j+ n% h3 F. q! n; x/ DThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% Y) [- l1 }1 K9 O- Z S
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
5 X/ T1 ~& u& k3 A' G& L0 vStreet watchdogs.% n$ J# C9 h, v7 a! t- ?
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,: x) E& e, R% b; F1 \% m* O
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
, B' a" Z, N) ^7 o. W8 hinvestigation.
# J! {1 D( d2 L& kWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
. d# \: U& X, T" f8 u" Cfour-hour confession.* V9 f" k% X% _6 o8 I7 S h
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
' P$ Q+ m. M1 N. Vknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with/ i% o8 k# U& ^8 R6 \6 g5 y
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.: \9 H+ ^, p; W. R2 f. P
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to# `/ V+ i6 w" |
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught6 o! c) Z4 E) F; U, N
in the moment.”6 G- J' N) ]+ w, R
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
" X6 z f8 f' O. x; GOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
3 T, ?- C/ l9 I7 a+ ^' a. I( |9 AAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) R9 u6 y1 }# C! l2 U1 @
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear. g6 `5 v5 [* d$ Q+ Y
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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