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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING$ a) r: N* y4 H# t4 Y
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN0 S4 Z& \3 c6 D! e" }2 C
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
8 s4 U# j4 E) t+ t9 k* Vcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
$ D* r# w6 m9 `1 f+ Q. _Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the6 |2 O6 p, c0 M+ w5 X
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January |* C& {* O6 z8 c$ S
28.
: u" ` _, d" E. k4 k”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.; K% T" `( _7 E1 ]; x! W
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over8 h2 f! g% o2 h3 `3 }; x9 i
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 o- b& c( @" f6 }9 [8 s0 Opure luck.
7 D) U' N( t4 C4 l' K”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers% F6 r. `! O. E
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
) i6 f- b: s/ x H, \$ \The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
9 i+ b# P* y) A+ C7 e8 q5 s9 tmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall4 E* a! q' a: n! h& S; p* k
Street watchdogs.
6 m+ n. p* S% j”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,$ M. M" K+ v& f4 |
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing8 I$ x6 q( F7 ~
investigation.: N0 R- C* J2 X6 v9 o% p
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling- S; Q1 J) W+ k& S/ |
four-hour confession. U# O- P ]7 N3 F
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common6 N+ ^+ [% E+ A( e- w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with7 H- E+ M8 T) f* T& o
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, u2 z. i a2 I/ u8 K”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& t0 ^) \% }/ i) k$ H" G5 h( g; ~
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught" v7 G& g! O* r4 c
in the moment.”
5 k; s9 f, J) dIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
5 D+ H) P) f/ r, |/ H. V! V" ^2 X3 ROsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.* S7 `* @/ t0 f/ k
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”7 `6 H2 }3 D8 }: g( m: I5 ]
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
2 e1 ?- V5 S7 Xthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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