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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
; n( S C7 w3 n8 [0 gWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN( s" j, x# b! s+ j$ ]; V- R
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
% J* q9 {+ m! z% R* t* c3 p4 }charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!$ d/ K( U% A$ n7 a8 e- t4 M
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the2 b: f) S. l6 o5 t2 c2 X$ ]! `, E
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January! _9 b: d" U' ~* l2 {, P4 N, M
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1 g9 n9 a" O, {* M5 X- T7 [: K”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
9 K) [* z; G$ q3 P”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
, h2 v* O- @" q% J5 U$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
) f4 c+ r8 k; X! O8 M+ X6 w$ K8 t+ ]pure luck.
! q# r! u( O' F# o4 |”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 i8 q5 x: n! _
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
, _ w# M% g8 V# P7 u7 RThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
# |4 M! X; Y# ^0 _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
6 ?4 |* {/ W# W9 x4 ]4 XStreet watchdogs.1 z& X/ w! u& G5 ^
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
' W" Z/ u/ x, E- ]% XMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing3 Q" c. d* X4 e" z' M5 W/ p
investigation.& f# ]; ~; ^8 `
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling7 d6 A" r& C) L( k* S6 ]! @
four-hour confession.
7 ~+ @5 k1 J; d3 {* zCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 F9 i) |5 Q6 J3 P9 M: n' Jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with) u, x6 u8 r9 |& {1 X( R
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.$ X' H! t$ r1 T; j" Z% m
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& p' _( T5 m& y/ Mmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught4 R1 C( I! U7 l9 J7 |
in the moment.”1 G& S! n, H" u& H ?
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of) H% B( d e C6 U' T
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
q# D0 O2 Q! lAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% a" M7 T' c9 i, Y" y3 a0 \3 L4 j% hHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 c4 x, ^: N& z4 u0 O" d. e1 ~) Dthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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