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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) `, ?; T5 ?! |3 nWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
# W1 ^' ?% Z1 }' x5 k# LNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading1 s2 v$ Z" T* d1 ~+ A2 ~
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!: c. a4 d0 S' Q' {: e5 Y+ n
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. Y7 N. E2 T6 N* C8 k
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January. P5 ]1 L* g2 ^! J6 u# t
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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.
$ w* b* Q' r3 r" Z% A”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over: x( q h6 y! n( B, v8 r
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" s& M% q3 g& x: q& x$ }- Epure luck.
+ m y, P& o* j$ K% H" B+ J”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers' C; S$ A$ {) w+ i% p
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
0 U' m4 i! {4 f' g5 [3 E% d: d" W) aThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
3 w- t: e: } t, F' ~made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 H/ ?, G5 u5 S* C* ~/ A/ J5 dStreet watchdogs.
2 v$ F: C( d& ]+ B6 E& u”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,% m7 r: x7 b9 G. q. }
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ v6 v- d) w% w; F. J* v
investigation.% _: |5 W6 H2 l' ]; a: e3 M2 ]
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
9 m S7 G# s; X ]2 o% J" lfour-hour confession.
+ o7 o' s% k0 {, m( jCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 \3 t# j7 ^6 g* i
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, l' P$ Z0 D6 X' }
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! @. `6 w# ?, }/ q% |) t1 W c”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
2 m5 y( D; l; L5 |2 Ymake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
0 z$ ~- f! d. q% P0 D$ o3 pin the moment.”4 j7 I8 u" e0 l! H
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
: C U7 |6 p G1 hOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! l2 S0 ]3 M- z0 y s% X7 y7 Z; OAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
4 H7 I2 x- n+ `- z& K/ F/ yHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 f6 t% |2 G, m0 Athe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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