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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% |( r0 o6 T! [8 f9 b
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN5 o: T) O3 w2 Y3 l" _( J% ]5 g$ g
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading! l/ J. }; Z' B" ~! L- n1 W" c
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
/ U: Y1 ?% z+ k$ _" pSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 Z5 B' G% c6 C) A8 m0 `! Sbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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: E4 f0 [2 z1 @8 P! j+ `”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
6 _7 T* J4 l( j3 g" R3 g, n”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
) J C# q6 H! @4 z) |8 y$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
8 @: r) {- C! y3 V: Upure luck.
f) }2 ?5 g, K p$ K”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
7 B7 Y6 V' e4 e, GIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”/ p# A" T! V# h' x8 y+ ~7 f
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
) W) s! ]$ F9 E, m! R umade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 Y8 x0 r8 c# c u- f! ^0 f2 Q; nStreet watchdogs.$ z A; ^2 o8 \) d
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- `9 l' Z6 g* b7 A3 e
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 {. @. g- h( O" U6 v- C
investigation.9 P/ Y Z% u4 m! p* \
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling. |6 d, x" ]/ l; m
four-hour confession. e3 Q F. S: r4 K1 ?; {; y
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( A. k% \8 O2 M2 v9 v3 qknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 H0 @( Y1 d0 n; o$ R
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune., a/ N7 r9 j1 T0 Q
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
$ {+ O8 f9 K* I7 I. a' t8 o9 P; fmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught' c/ r$ K" D7 N j
in the moment.”3 R9 x1 t0 y7 T9 g% U. {
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; p4 Z. V5 K. @& E7 ?7 @+ y
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS. M3 _: u) g& w7 u$ s
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
$ D5 Q! i( m+ g7 ]3 J% N& x7 qHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
0 v" ^* c) h8 C& L/ ]% fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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