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8 K" u* P- q: b& I7 }! ~‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING7 h& _, W) b# d' A" K7 ]9 ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ w* k0 R, I5 Y% BNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
4 g& A1 L2 h; G" E# V+ F; Ccharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!) n. U6 U6 G1 j2 j# D+ [1 y7 F7 G
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
8 `7 ~5 \# O1 `4 \+ [9 k8 |bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January# \; y# D8 O! [9 o. E
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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.7 a- c( q: S0 M( y: p% i) I, f
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* A! q: M8 D% Z9 @2 @ K4 a8 k$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be! h, a. ]" p, P( z' R5 D$ |
pure luck.$ G- t$ p) z! N: O' q s
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
1 E3 y/ u) s+ y" t8 ?Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
4 X5 g* P( W' H( O+ r, f# y9 c* gThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* o, G4 s& s" J& p; ^ @: A/ emade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall# i! B5 T7 W, E4 W. `* C
Street watchdogs.
7 h3 Z& D$ T& ?”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 _' x5 U9 I9 TMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing. {/ N- ~$ u( Y7 N% D9 e9 w
investigation.
2 W' J* R) c4 d9 nWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling! O/ u, Y0 J0 T& l! F& j
four-hour confession.9 h/ J# x( R& \5 A. \& G/ k: ?
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common$ F' w) o7 g" ]$ x
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with" } X: V. z1 M8 X' W5 H
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 X( E7 V; h: N/ u4 L”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
+ P/ R$ L2 t, H+ {make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* u& G w" P. B0 i k
in the moment.”
; C8 o6 a8 z- ~" w jIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of; O) G ?( u- n9 W! j! L1 Z
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
, Z2 h9 f' p, `7 SAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& j5 m8 w8 r/ Z# X. {1 ]
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
" [8 Q5 o* M! L$ ^the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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