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6 Y+ u9 u% o0 x1 d) U‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING1 U4 C- j4 K2 A: N0 A9 Q9 ~
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ ?' g w7 l7 R H9 sNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
+ i% [, S$ B* n2 p" y& Scharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% O) `& {! I) I6 ~
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
* d1 U/ g I- y+ w# j' d# h+ Ibizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January1 s7 H3 r1 _( c) J; q; g
28.
: A8 [4 ]! P( u' [4 V5 l”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.3 E$ c5 p4 y& I2 Z+ v2 d8 G
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over. \6 i4 W0 B+ z) J6 Z0 b F
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 x8 E& G$ h2 I- [1 K+ r& V
pure luck.* y7 \; G J2 K/ m
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers: v4 U2 r+ T& {; P$ ^
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”% W" a" f) L3 r/ l, X- }% n
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin5 P1 c; p$ {- x$ V) S% n& M) {
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall0 |/ L& ?1 A: U* l @* C$ Z9 J8 \
Street watchdogs.
# j% c$ e! Y' c M. @”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ a7 `( q; C% W' J' J+ ~Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing- o9 W G! b6 B- D
investigation.
( I+ s( G4 R" I+ c/ e1 DWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling8 k) n5 J: ]4 Z+ E3 t: h1 d
four-hour confession.
2 d5 J- R; j5 `1 B/ x0 u. z5 P* ICarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common6 u, y' `3 ^( X f1 S7 n
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ [/ T+ h; J$ X5 kknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
& |* O7 J5 b, D$ `7 u”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 X' U1 e, f4 a8 `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 `2 d/ v/ Z' F
in the moment.”1 R) \9 D: A0 o' W ~5 I! F0 N% A
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 a; Q, d' v/ [+ Y" H& O& X- I: P7 EOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" R6 |( I( W( n+ b0 K% R$ Y, ]All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”/ x. Z9 Y: J$ c5 u8 r
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 P- W8 _1 E8 _0 t, fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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