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) a" ^7 v( O! h8 G! ~, m0 j‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 d# \* d: n7 [$ c8 k8 l
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: r0 `. y3 h: c* k* g2 G2 I5 ^NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 L7 P/ X( y- b
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
* v4 }2 b! U5 ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
: X; `2 _, s1 O" T/ q: 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.' X/ B. J0 G# d0 Z# w6 q+ r. \
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" T* n6 f$ @1 J$ T6 a
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be( R5 P; _1 T: ~# L
pure luck.6 B. i1 l* B5 b4 T
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers, ]5 M9 A1 Y+ T. [) k T; g* `% r8 Q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 [1 w4 U; A, ~1 yThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; a( C' G: l9 h, M
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ A( u2 p6 F0 w' X+ E/ Z8 |/ t. Y& P
Street watchdogs. T0 p# d$ X( F" D
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 U2 \1 M$ x' M. y3 h, L4 X
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing/ k3 l0 c( N p5 k% d- [7 W: n. I1 C
investigation.
; K+ ] ~. j8 w# i; w) N+ MWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
# M4 K8 r2 @: e! Qfour-hour confession.
6 Y/ B8 a! P' Y2 nCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 M U& z/ ?" d2 v Sknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with1 L+ s8 U, t! m
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
5 A) g8 g( ~# P6 M7 @6 B: `+ Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to8 J1 P4 g7 M1 c# W- ]3 Q9 s
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
+ k- d G/ k# w2 A' K6 W) _1 Qin the moment.”$ U- V) G6 N2 Y" B
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
* c7 l7 I6 o1 I2 ^& w- A! \Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.( e& l5 c6 A) F1 T0 X- Q9 B& b
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”1 h( R; T% g1 _# E8 p6 o
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* `& F' m B% k+ h4 N
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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