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+ n! c% t3 H! P) Q1 r" J' m‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
# Q8 l, F M/ f% s& TWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN3 G3 {4 v& M V$ |- R4 x* o
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading8 b1 b1 e2 \. e/ `0 D2 |$ ~
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, y" C- F$ V' x( {0 M+ jSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
/ @. r& `% L1 G/ r- \5 ?# n$ 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.
8 d# m) U1 r! J7 g7 R5 r”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
, u$ M+ f7 ~- D5 ]- q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
?% w% V, _ Z/ j0 _pure luck.3 g$ G/ b/ M. a9 `; h% [0 @4 Y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ S7 L5 L8 ^0 n0 W9 C: BIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”1 l. M0 q+ B# W" I2 w, J! G% a
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin8 H* L# o1 _# O+ x% j
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall: K% f6 V1 n$ r+ i3 i3 q
Street watchdogs.
$ C. S0 T2 |# n L3 }' {”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ u9 u- o' V4 V6 L6 ], g6 L) u
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
' j7 B; V1 L9 N; Hfour-hour confession.
- c" _. P$ _% \ y9 P2 P- L8 x5 lCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
2 Q0 X1 X) a+ B7 T# O( Jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 `- C; m/ F7 r' I6 f+ b i
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
2 I9 M! b- O. f2 w" f# @' N”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 |2 a3 c' R1 y( Fmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
8 ` O$ u" j" g L4 g) win the moment.”
5 T* ?! N B' z8 GIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of' \) e8 @# R/ y" I1 P
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.$ ?1 t4 M9 S6 S! x2 w
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 A# @; ~7 [; `
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear8 e X" S8 U5 [0 n7 i
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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