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3 o. [* W2 ?! N& ^5 X- q‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING x8 s' T# e& W. A7 Q9 _. H' |
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN; j7 E$ _2 B2 a& V% n2 K# p) }0 u
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading k1 L0 n o7 L: v- V1 m
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* E* a$ k1 R& ]Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
# s8 R5 u( r; S. R* tbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 `7 W. w$ N5 R* P8 A' A5 A+ d
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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./ i7 V G& M3 i' `( C
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; S& v; ~$ h! o4 `, P$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
! j8 a9 `5 y) C6 F7 \9 R1 ?+ l& cpure luck.
4 Z5 x: E2 j7 m/ K8 W& O# [”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! k9 W6 @8 u$ E
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
I7 E: f' A, N" R8 {) _The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 v9 c- f; _+ A$ J$ a- Q5 C
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
8 z3 F. @: r [4 ^% ~) V8 B$ LStreet watchdogs.
1 D. I. G. _3 ^5 u”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,* o N: p0 c! p5 K8 F4 l* `* L4 |
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 D9 f8 S7 l- e& g
investigation.. \' {) {* H& \5 R4 a) Y% w
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling) z* T0 F/ V) Y$ R
four-hour confession.* z' F. s! r7 ~
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
6 E, F8 N% X: f4 w% U' Y" `knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
4 r3 V. A% X! Jknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
# p( O* H- l2 y9 z3 |5 R”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to* N0 k, q+ B8 f ]
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught- Y& ^9 \* Q1 I, ^( b9 z' k1 @
in the moment.”- i9 A3 R& x3 l/ W' Z- m
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 d8 O# M( G) E7 d6 yOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. I2 v" {9 j* l! V/ Z
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
8 ]9 E' c) d# R dHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 \% h+ o5 M+ m7 R$ k' Pthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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