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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
1 x! w) z' o; E) Q, e6 lWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 B7 t9 j, {. C# \
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading |* ]8 d# r7 u6 c- h' {
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!9 l, R( g" |7 L2 l
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
7 f, y+ X5 j& u# Z% Obizarre 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.
& H, F7 _1 G8 b U; H”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- ~' J. a. X8 Y1 p5 G/ p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 ~4 g& Q. _& t. N
pure luck.
+ F" Z# i. x- `7 o5 _' R" c! ~”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers4 f5 `2 l, I* w1 J4 b
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. e8 _8 C- ~' h4 j4 A/ ~$ |
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
' e8 w, t# Y0 ?9 M. xmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
! h S O' K# [Street watchdogs.
7 w( ^0 ^; P4 ?”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,8 h. _9 f2 y. K4 |$ a! v4 ~: R
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
$ B7 d1 N% y A9 J6 Dinvestigation.
1 h4 z% c: `) Y6 }& `* y5 f" Q+ sWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
! J! _6 ^# X7 S: f afour-hour confession.9 f& q0 W( v$ K O' @
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 L V t( B2 _ T3 @9 b8 {6 h
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
6 I& G. v2 K+ }+ Nknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) J6 L; `9 |6 }% f/ Y7 f”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to6 M0 x: }2 q! Y1 L, P
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught. @8 i$ S* Q9 _3 v9 \+ g
in the moment.”- F- G- g' {& f6 N
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of/ E. T( b, B7 A; Q7 a; X
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
# B) F; _0 x; q6 ^All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
3 J3 J( M% a% }* R( B) ^3 w. ^9 OHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear% {( G3 u+ a2 ~, }, @8 r; y, p& U
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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