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3 ]: @. s8 V4 O l) ^‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING0 u1 H6 M# ?- x! r0 w6 A
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
& T6 K& d! b7 ENEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
. R" r- D7 ~0 } u3 [# u+ ncharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!" V | H0 d- T/ j. t: L5 t, ~4 X
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
. c3 ]3 v6 }7 K+ f% _& wbizarre 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 p7 ?' S1 l0 ~6 Y) c# M3 C”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& l1 k8 U! Z+ q
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be* M( d( `, ~: [ \7 `0 j1 x" V# e
pure luck.
- c. Z: t8 i- _( |8 |4 r”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: Q0 {7 r( r$ m1 I0 N7 W
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
+ _% [# Z/ N) V6 _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
. U; _. V# y$ A7 n& S* `; |1 Kmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall& w; \% k9 H! M q% [2 N
Street watchdogs.
0 ?: S* N4 \& o”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 ^2 D- H$ E' i9 DMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
6 _/ J- [' i* f! e) ^investigation.# [/ c; J7 f+ \" \: P/ a
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
8 e0 g/ C8 f" [& v& ?four-hour confession.# W9 u9 |$ S+ N: G! ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 E( n, Q5 u) i* \+ O. e4 r" E
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with; `, J! j) `4 S0 |
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) ^1 \! p; M" L# [& |* w2 F* B”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
( X% n9 ~; D7 F' y) g) J. u; emake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
# d$ b# }; F0 Y* {) X/ q% jin the moment.”$ m$ A. i3 U( c: d$ ]' p
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of6 e- F7 Z+ \ Z
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 M% H' ]6 P! }, TAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”* `- e1 F$ W/ S5 N' i& K
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
( D2 ]; T5 ~2 h/ Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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