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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
' _3 t0 o7 L! A2 j" D% GWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
( i, F4 j# Y8 w3 M) h& A; { K( NNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' a9 o2 `: \! N) ^ L8 }
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# R2 s7 T5 |) M1 q+ j/ XSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the D4 z b% r- s& m( q3 v& f1 h
bizarre 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.
, _! a' I& C+ ?% u, A0 b”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
) Y0 s- {9 |$ j$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be/ w s8 Y2 z! @+ ^0 G4 r; q
pure luck.
) O/ x1 d$ L) Q, p7 P) @2 a”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! a* j$ Y1 E. Q D
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 N1 ~- y4 K& |/ M0 t1 m
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
1 ]5 Q/ h1 P5 [! z/ p2 h' ~( Jmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,1 K+ m* K/ F. R( b- _
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing! Z) p; P6 h6 E, N3 E
investigation.
$ F r$ x4 e8 q" I8 a, c9 UWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
5 ]$ u( |' p& ]& f# k4 A' k! N$ @four-hour confession.+ @8 T2 M u5 i4 N
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 |5 i5 Z3 c( ]5 Y& n. [. Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
% a8 t! [8 ?# G' { _: X# X4 iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.4 ^2 t; A2 {" k$ e, P
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
7 M" [, e1 }! a; O' H$ ~; `make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# G4 D# b1 m# n. k$ I ]
in the moment.”
- Z2 p* a% ]* |' ~In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! ^, U* U A2 X0 g0 K, Z- jOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS./ Q; A6 ~2 J9 W. a
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% H! B& N+ k- Q$ p6 ~However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear1 R8 |! f, V/ ], O0 l
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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