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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
! E7 ]+ L: v; {% s) vWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 b1 e! v: [6 {$ kNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 _+ Q3 w1 B b/ Tcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 r4 Z, ?! Z/ |Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
) T4 W i! }5 ~7 U: Hbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January$ ?' T/ z) H/ H+ o2 M9 M' P4 ]# B% \; X
28.
3 H A/ u& E# y+ }. }”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
- \6 q% h/ i7 R$ q- d Y1 |! `”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
- t) d0 q/ f# \5 `$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be+ c U% q0 v5 Z3 L6 q2 i+ ~) q6 X
pure luck.
/ H9 s( U/ m8 R$ E3 X. t8 q”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers- D: J" B% b3 Z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”# r7 y& k8 U$ e! O! u' g6 z5 Q
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 ]. [- }- ?5 x, }9 s& _made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
' O, _6 r" R3 q4 E2 aStreet watchdogs.8 g; h; T% X4 K& Q
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
3 U) `' s2 F- E- U- Y1 tMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing3 A* d7 J3 a& A3 m$ g2 M, K
investigation.
9 u, ~% R- _( L5 C8 Q$ t& ?, QWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ W' d; f% \/ f4 C- Dfour-hour confession.
6 P& u9 `# z& n% C1 \% Y6 x# ~6 eCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
0 U% T! c+ W5 p9 p* aknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with& D( `6 w4 a3 b/ V
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune., a/ c, x. {1 i0 [3 X b) f2 y
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& j' H. W: x [. w# g x4 _. d+ D) ?
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught) \% L& `! Q+ d3 ^& b5 h
in the moment.”: R: F9 p0 p+ {5 w
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
6 A1 B& f% D2 @( a6 B+ F/ OOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ u" {" A3 {" r; u# ?+ G) ]/ wAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”5 n8 p x& U+ t0 A
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ q4 A8 \5 F: d
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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