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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING d7 c% e/ B+ b1 o/ ^
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
$ p+ o2 r3 ^4 h2 E0 K" O9 o- D( LNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 U' r5 ]0 G( n4 {$ g; bcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
. Z0 C. f: N0 P# hSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
! ?6 M9 c+ i8 p6 g( }bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 S) B: n) Z# k) S
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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.
; C9 F' m0 [; r; C: u3 }5 d”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
* Z# O0 L4 b- n$ O+ S, E$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ T1 k7 B2 m- d4 f7 Jpure luck.
% x/ s& @8 Y8 Z) C p3 `& ~”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 u# W. \! d4 [ F8 a- NIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
+ l8 Q2 I8 B. H9 @# ~ W% \The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin& o: e6 W3 ~& w' z6 |& D
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 Z. G- P. r8 p: G3 F& U* c/ [
Street watchdogs.: }! _2 r& X/ Y+ d5 e' X% j: d& O
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,! E. ^+ a" u8 \& b$ N2 e
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing N1 b( k& k5 t% D$ J2 q+ u
investigation.
9 l' d0 x( ?* }5 {- N( Q( H+ ~When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
z, _8 n% ?- S+ J# ^0 d- ?four-hour confession.2 H5 b s4 x. G6 q# u6 T0 @
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common) z1 s, m: \0 M5 m
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
) l( o0 X& B: u0 k& a1 K0 h0 Lknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% r, }; ?& P; @# c5 U P
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
8 v. W$ E9 H. J3 G1 Nmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught7 o( D- j# s; q, E0 {/ `! z
in the moment.”
* L/ \% g* X; ?5 }In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
9 T; u$ t% p" j/ W m8 `Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
6 K! }5 W* E& ]All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”# n6 ]/ w/ M% b; x; F
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 C0 {8 v( u% s$ M6 w8 r ]! q- vthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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