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, X; e9 ?3 j3 E‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
: ]2 v0 L# w6 V |0 NWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN* b% Q+ q7 b8 h' ~ A0 N) N
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
# T" J, F& M& ]4 Y! C. j$ R9 G5 ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
8 i* e4 Y! |0 J7 v$ O7 cSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
8 g& b! s0 N* c% D3 A! ybizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January8 m d- Z1 P% K0 U" W% a5 @
28.
( k+ O$ e& X9 z2 F/ A”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
" \( A. ?: D; W2 B) i+ G”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over! ] F7 ?( @0 T( _
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers3 ?) l: {/ C9 |" l" {
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”1 A# D; s1 T& u' O! ~3 F. J& k
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" p8 l% r: f1 z8 p- h: S- @7 umade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, P1 C5 ]. C" b+ ]+ l9 ^
Street watchdogs.
! C( N1 X2 `/ R”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,3 }# \+ B% o7 W# F
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing- \. o2 |2 m+ S8 B
investigation.: l! M$ x; f! W8 w- ^$ c$ D
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
3 Q( M5 U/ T6 w7 v3 P+ lfour-hour confession.
3 H4 r0 L0 y: y* ~4 e+ FCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 F1 p @3 S8 f3 }6 [# |' }knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
: }7 H$ Y/ D1 F; A/ ~knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.7 ]0 b+ o9 {' F6 X; {; H" S$ x
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% n% |& R- }5 x
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught! E3 t* i$ x; v. g$ [
in the moment.”
+ N0 i3 y6 g# H. n# `+ v! {: kIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of3 {/ M- o0 W- g1 R3 O$ A5 L
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.7 `$ J$ T: w9 w6 j( E" F
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
- I( N) t" \2 {2 v0 ^. Y! yHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
# E4 b! I7 e1 l0 Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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