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) q& w$ u5 I& M' \; x$ b3 C ?2 T‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
6 f. T. O; W# T4 q: ^Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ `* g% j z- \NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading k+ ^$ W9 }6 e( G1 z' r
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
- `" s& _$ {2 A3 W }3 M5 c. e* KSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
; o% {& v! | z$ h' R+ Pbizarre 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.' q& T$ c! a$ U; Q. G/ Y7 k( _
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over0 y; ], Z# U4 _# S$ F: J
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
L ?' n, s9 \+ b+ {, }pure luck.
# E% w! @5 x# C6 C”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
m0 B: I a9 b0 B. SIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”- v, v( I9 y! u; a- g
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 K$ v9 P) ?, Z6 p1 e: G
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall9 S8 d* [; V6 r" A. B. n- [4 m1 W
Street watchdogs.1 W! R [* p) ^* H( J- B
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
- s6 |6 w, c% R2 N7 p0 S0 pMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! R' Y( C) K8 n9 u% N' f; K/ C& ]2 A
investigation.
7 a( x* `1 }3 M1 l' ~( z+ DWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling' q- m2 ` ~, y4 a0 S0 ]7 C3 n
four-hour confession.
& _) k2 N' }% sCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
, d0 ~. V4 `/ o5 k9 w5 `7 u9 Oknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with3 N$ J6 d" n! j! k/ ~3 [1 Q" ~7 S
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
) X5 P3 N! n. y! p/ T& H”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to: K9 n) j9 V2 M7 r# u& W; j
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' B4 Q3 x+ `' B* L
in the moment.”- K6 i$ ^& z) O, H- p3 k& G5 d
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
; p% n3 A$ v5 p! W) TOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
% m5 `; g9 ?. p: O6 BAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”( x& V# |& L1 }
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( n+ L" f5 | k5 Y6 K5 O: ?
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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