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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) U9 | H6 y! l( vWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN& @3 A" U, ]4 w/ e
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 w+ y: P. j9 J' m$ j- o& h# ?$ ~3 c
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" A' W2 V1 Y% O0 j/ W' uSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& W/ y) ~) U4 J q7 W% A
bizarre 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.* j$ H. [4 \9 k( U4 Y9 g* c3 F! v
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
' X0 _4 {2 f: R' Z" B6 S$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be1 q5 C7 |5 H( }* g0 c5 L1 W( p
pure luck.& @! d* G9 ?7 i2 ^4 @! }5 C! p
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: I# _0 J/ f$ ?3 C
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”( h. ~+ J) n5 J p; k# @" ]9 `
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 ?0 i+ o9 `) Z3 G# l
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall- T. n" x- B1 t- a
Street watchdogs.3 D) e8 e" `) {8 w5 E3 O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
' y! o! m! \: QMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing5 _$ |# y8 z4 Q1 S4 [
investigation.& [8 p1 T* A# v
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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$ A5 I6 u1 k$ f: d: P' ]Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common! Y l5 f8 B8 y5 M6 z# M# F1 G
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with% o# \/ P4 o9 E, {9 k
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
: S6 M. E8 b. P; R0 E+ D+ l”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
9 [& e# Y/ \( q( @+ F3 f, @( g5 Qmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
6 @' O8 R. L% n; y( a8 Gin the moment.”
4 q9 n3 v0 n8 ?2 T2 ^" X# uIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
- o! K* X. @) h _4 L! f( o+ p9 XOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
{1 j& z5 d! |9 w% ]3 s+ H5 [; PAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
1 v' g' G% \2 U, c: N/ ~However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# p7 Q/ d' v" K# F% F' k: t) ythe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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