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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf' l: ^6 J9 w9 f6 U7 _' \8 N: Z
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING2 y3 s" z6 F0 z, }- B. H7 ?" I6 t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 \4 a7 ~9 J" q- ^ y+ v) q
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 o9 }: V* E7 |1 q
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!1 y, H& B) s: p5 b# |
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. { ]9 S! j# [! Q* T3 K
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January9 k) L v9 M3 a; W9 K
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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.
/ t% a( {) _$ f3 g”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
1 L1 ^/ [& r! H* i; a+ {$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be1 R/ `4 J8 k/ J+ ]( n
pure luck.
/ i- ?0 m& f4 U7 j”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
7 \8 l5 {# s }1 uIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 J7 ?" z0 H3 v" p O# O
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin6 ^' v- B7 G. ^3 T0 P% O' c+ U4 L* [, t
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
* r+ r; l% N' ?, kStreet watchdogs.+ E. W2 s7 f' m' B+ S0 E) @0 M6 f
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ a! c0 v( `$ L: B% L V6 r
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
0 G! W/ O4 A, W7 X9 z, b3 f. ~investigation.5 M6 F* b. h/ W" @' ^; g$ k) I
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
2 t n/ a. C; x) f" @four-hour confession.
; H! s8 f' x* E6 ~ K3 K; ICarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common" }1 t- K) f& }
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
5 x* F8 w5 z. lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% K; S5 M E& `7 w7 r4 @3 Z
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to" M- H0 F- \$ ~3 ?
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* j% i5 o) F4 Y, M
in the moment.”
1 o" _, }. C* z0 jIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ p7 F5 w- L7 ~* {7 m3 H% b0 O x
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ [7 O2 ?5 g* E/ G
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”+ ], o4 N3 ~1 i( C) S, q( Q1 T* Z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
7 j, N9 {5 w7 q, |3 v: `1 ethe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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