 鲜花( 170)  鸡蛋( 0)
|

楼主 |
发表于 2008-1-12 08:13
|
显示全部楼层
http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf6 |; B# y! Y. a6 f' f
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
% J, {* ^$ [0 F' E# r# Q0 _Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 ?5 [, \( L9 e4 KNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading% ?( ?& Z* e# v0 K* b3 p% z
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
# ^* d) `7 g! n2 k2 L9 K n6 M6 \Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the `' Y4 u6 E4 w. M& \2 A
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
- ]! A7 ^, P; G9 e# Z28.0 ?- z9 {8 k2 U S; l8 f1 ?
”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
! D4 x0 q2 q0 c' |! t# d% [8 o”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over7 {# r: O( E# T
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 V: s: R! o' S, @. e: k* F, f
pure luck.
) Z! l/ u9 o: A! t$ W”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
d8 _2 t5 N# _Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
+ z" S4 p' D( w) aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
0 \3 G# ]" m7 }! T& q: ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
( W# A* g- D. l' n. n% y" yStreet watchdogs.
1 p: Z# }* I& s* O( g: v8 \”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- L2 V7 E v' `) X
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& B( i& ]4 @2 A8 j1 Z6 j" @; h8 Hinvestigation.4 i+ B3 q3 W& o/ R9 ]1 a: C% G
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling# J8 L& Q* N v, k0 a* ^
four-hour confession.$ s8 S' z ]9 C) L
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common. T/ P- ^, k' u& Z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: [+ v8 g" d7 H
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
* K4 S/ e" k9 T7 q) M”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
& x# I' n0 d! ]) D( y5 R0 gmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
# t& j5 e% V( f7 o0 v) fin the moment.”) V) }3 H7 @# I: a) B4 F
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of6 s: p/ t: Y- d: H7 s2 ?; U
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 C$ {, Y: T+ s; f1 R+ r# [All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”3 t% a( X9 G, Q) `2 X5 ^+ d9 L
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 }6 [% C( B; v6 M9 _) R% J1 n! \the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
|