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) g0 h, O7 U! H: Y‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING. O. r9 X- s9 j
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN0 q2 J6 i4 R u& q) g* b
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading) Z' T& J& T: r# v( J1 O
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& x+ p' l. D5 f) NSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
1 v3 |' V8 `& S: c9 n* Fbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January: I" Q7 H" P7 Z5 U" d2 @
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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.
4 D+ u, I) m7 X9 K1 S”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
2 y3 J8 U# [2 W( h0 K0 F0 r$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be5 T* L1 B2 a1 ~
pure luck.' H9 U0 e4 ]& G$ ~% Z
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! o, _9 k' ^+ I( U" h; L! D/ j7 w! Z
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”5 l% t+ r; }! ^1 D
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin1 y: v4 C7 A' Y- F2 }
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall$ {3 l6 e; i) N
Street watchdogs., D; g4 N/ L( t7 }
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
% ~( I9 Q$ h s7 F- ^4 E4 WMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing9 M# u( i v: P# b. v7 T
investigation.( y/ f0 \$ G4 F- E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
4 {& U) t5 l. c- G" Wfour-hour confession.: S8 O% `+ h, E7 H
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
0 l7 V# y) m9 p& ~: V& n; ~' uknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
0 R* j4 U) k% W4 e3 O. B$ o3 Hknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.+ I' P; S# @( ^- }5 S
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
, r6 I- |& m5 J8 u! Zmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
4 j0 [( m Y1 h. Xin the moment.”
, V" N# I/ r g0 V- L8 Y! HIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- ~8 X7 Z* q- B6 d+ s; I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
% u' a4 A! g. x! YAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
3 ^0 U8 |& ~ ]' kHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& x; n& T, n2 p' z% N' V$ T
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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