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# L# f/ \' l& c$ R V9 k6 s‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING) U6 U* p: ?* f# V) v
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
0 T1 W# g& [" t) F" Q8 l) UNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
; b7 d, J0 U7 @9 }1 [charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 P! f0 G0 O4 F1 g ?5 b8 k4 u! ~Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 F9 B( Q3 z* G" b0 t6 a4 W: h' p
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.
% O3 T4 D z, p* m”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
5 Y0 k9 O9 m* \2 w; i$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be2 f" |0 L! T& H# G8 b+ x" e
pure luck.
# b3 m/ E6 N7 s”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers# a* G( r7 u' a% B# g" h0 {
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
# U0 i) l5 Q4 vThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
_3 C# f# H, [made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall5 K Y. k9 ^7 d) N
Street watchdogs., B' d& A j3 ]4 X& _
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
! N8 Z ^" t" L8 dMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing- H3 E) ?" t5 g- E
investigation.
i- V, {3 }3 E8 kWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
7 }4 W$ g; r- N& R0 Ifour-hour confession.
) i v2 }6 c2 j0 L6 W& W2 L' bCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; |# {0 D2 k6 P& v# e
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with4 n) Z% P; D& V$ E# {
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.& ?: q7 h9 U, |4 B" h
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
) {7 M( _, U; |0 m' x; |% mmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
* b% h7 i7 q2 R* M, h6 @* Kin the moment.”
) f3 o8 [/ R r% C3 G* vIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of# c* b- {" Y6 M9 ^) N; I- U
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" @; f/ D4 ~, HAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”' b6 p9 v4 k. g: Q" j, a9 j$ d# D
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear* [4 q2 Y5 F( U# u/ [
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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