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) @+ a' A! P$ Q, E3 k1 R‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING/ G% ?, i9 t6 n% { } l
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
9 w' ^' y( ~. d$ zNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
& q" a) K1 u. K% x) acharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!7 c+ [7 v8 m% X y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the+ {$ T2 G) [& u9 Y$ W
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January8 [* w2 A- C5 @. L
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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.
# v1 ^8 O- ]) ^6 f- }' h" D”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over/ r7 Y% I' }9 v) n' D# S
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be& S# T/ R. g, G1 d- K z
pure luck.
U7 N2 X r, ?1 i! \3 b”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers' \' L; Y1 U( T! P4 {. O7 S Q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”' X) D' @# K" D& u: |& I
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
/ _ p; Z9 Q2 D: |6 {6 H; q2 Wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 Y! o; ^9 `- I- k; ~
Street watchdogs.
1 i5 F( r3 e7 d”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! g& \. F2 D( c: ^% w6 o; vMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing4 c) Q) ` _- |- U5 v2 ^5 z. N
investigation.
+ g+ q/ I2 u! J# }) b* }When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
" u& L" k) N, {! l! k& ufour-hour confession.7 V7 ]% f/ [" m: Y4 Z' E
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
: c5 O% D2 @ oknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with$ J+ q! |5 Z2 b1 _: D
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.' H) S- [# x: }6 d8 e( I
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 `: D3 H2 [+ M6 B r2 z% dmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
2 Q6 p+ i5 U/ m# c5 k) Z3 a; bin the moment.”% B y% n) L' ?0 ]4 G) k
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
M( U$ b5 d2 E1 x: a7 TOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.8 c0 g& y' k S( v$ W. k
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
! w, l6 C" v/ A- eHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 \1 J4 N1 Z- J$ b: v( B- ^the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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