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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING, B, Q$ X7 d* o# e1 L- ^5 Z/ ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
3 `# \/ {) r3 GNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
; K, ]% Z# y, f* a3 bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!$ L& w) O* _# p% F5 ]+ O8 H
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' f8 E" i8 f1 p. h8 C4 L0 w* \
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.( H" {/ n/ E/ A
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 F" q, e0 `! g2 C9 o
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be' f. [# G" r0 l$ e7 R: o; v
pure luck.+ j: K4 W1 @3 A" ]8 m
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers& n6 s7 p1 k3 a; z* n6 }
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”: z$ Y+ y2 @& m. T
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
3 _9 }3 b; w0 k7 Y: umade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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" h# ^& L3 a' \3 S7 g; N”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,2 y: ]- G7 ^& ]9 n, L3 E
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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( M) c1 i% p8 v6 o0 i GWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
9 J( g3 l, E" \) e. ^5 Ifour-hour confession.0 Y! R" C, o. k1 i' D5 d
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( V- ^3 R6 L* n, q5 Oknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
7 z! K7 j" s4 X) u3 b- Tknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
4 m$ Z* J" U* ^7 Q, Q”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
0 f3 L) |, m0 W3 Vmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of+ s4 U2 d1 B* u8 T; D
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 j: \4 i: W; v, b, zAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) m3 z9 @) K$ \4 G1 s) I: A7 j
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear/ i5 _$ J* q; i# H* [
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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