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4 J8 \6 g1 i9 I- L‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING' g3 p( U0 H! C7 ^' ^8 F
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
) T% f6 W8 Z, C5 \1 aNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% o P: m! e! W& E, @charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& a: ^9 G; F; ZSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the/ A" d4 i; O1 J* g- n; t9 d/ d
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January5 Y! ]5 `7 n$ b+ c5 O
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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.
" x8 O- q' X9 b”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
4 x3 t+ f1 f1 C/ {3 x1 H0 B$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 J. B: n( g! v# I/ h- v+ W: Y+ Cpure luck.# ~' t* {7 }' T$ g, }
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 c, h% l% @( e1 [ g
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
% ?8 }' ^; s' _2 X2 Y, wThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 e4 N: c1 t0 J* C3 s& O
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall2 _. z, k3 H" H. ~" C: V7 Z
Street watchdogs.7 p, m# E0 g# F2 F
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; p( q1 F: w: J7 ?9 j( a' g6 W
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing) Y8 v1 N6 c0 | C8 t9 q8 _& `
investigation.7 Y' C% ?5 X2 P, ]+ Z9 z
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling; h* Y: p, V+ g3 G' v6 `
four-hour confession.( f' Z' F3 n. _% w/ T# D
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* P8 o! q8 I, s, I; G" Bknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
1 D H& c8 J) l0 \+ |1 yknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.( A" s9 ^) _0 S+ L$ {2 ] w
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to: J: x$ e1 ^* C
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' I& l0 t% q" q% d/ \
in the moment.” e$ z! ?. j; P) P8 [
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ Y* X8 I2 y, `: F
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
3 L, ?3 y; P. B# x8 E1 }All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”, a: x) U5 }3 F1 P3 Z, a
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear Z9 G l- g8 O
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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