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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 R+ v2 G7 [* d- |Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
! R2 n+ o( o! a* F( w0 C! s# ONEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 J, R, ]' {5 n; r% ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% P8 _7 Q: h( ?9 D; ?- B; x
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the/ }. G$ G2 ]1 m w, t
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.
, C2 w$ W0 y4 v. ~! u1 `”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
$ x% V1 y1 J& u# h9 V/ w3 _$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be, {6 {* k& Q8 o1 T8 h
pure luck.
' D) C1 j' p, u# a" J! s! {”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers8 d# V( C) u% D1 u( k& Q5 O% ^
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 d& K, u+ [ y# O F/ ZThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin3 U4 N4 e; o4 Q- h* e" S
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
/ }( X& Q* {0 J( p! y7 mStreet watchdogs.
3 ~$ Q. `0 X; }; {& G0 n! R: O# ~”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! R/ N. q& c) q, I; q C6 c" LMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# v5 M/ _" o9 B5 A2 W7 ninvestigation.
% i' m$ s1 G* c- J: T0 A( s0 F) YWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling" z% M" W& A) u; b8 _% }
four-hour confession.( I3 g: L0 l C6 j* L5 C
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% h, ^. C( B9 M( ^
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with- I d, ]; \9 k) a5 m4 x
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! o, t/ O7 K! I! L, T”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! c+ L$ z3 @+ _$ {' c* _: jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& j- b' s# g3 M, k) P9 n+ O9 J4 ^in the moment.”
5 ~; P9 a* ]1 I( s* ]In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
) L: I9 n7 u; I% s8 M! d, }Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. J5 \* m4 W; xAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% f- @+ h4 r' M7 L( THowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear2 h0 f% U. z* G q3 _( ?
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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