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4 U; Q/ D/ w9 \$ Z4 B3 l% {! @$ ?" S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
( F. B" |/ c, S/ N1 uWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: S5 a' _! j9 J1 U0 mNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 D: B& |* x( d* P
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
3 @* ]/ }0 c0 ESources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
K. G- _ _5 K: w \2 J# M( H6 cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# [& b, m% T; _1 ~( g+ t”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.. m9 U* j: l* E/ p
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over" t) H9 v# N9 H1 c8 g ?+ f
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
: Q( A/ N2 a9 S! m' t8 [pure luck.+ K" ]2 N: q9 f4 v: \
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
$ F$ d- V9 f4 O# A8 Q5 AIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”4 t1 ?" j2 }# W' q0 [6 M
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin& M- E. _& p7 |5 B/ N$ @
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall% N! F) z9 b* T- P/ g+ r
Street watchdogs.
& t. ^/ f3 b! i8 ?”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
1 r9 \9 t' C8 z4 Y; YMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
; u! b- X1 P, q5 w; F5 `investigation.
- {" P) ^$ T( Z- o) A! {1 ]3 TWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
) Y& N. V* v ?2 ~+ ?+ Yfour-hour confession.7 S% e) n& R$ z8 ?$ O
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common& { A! ~. @; `) R. j1 y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
( P. v$ c* b4 }; w. {! s D$ `knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% J2 e% |1 ^$ \5 X/ [8 b3 c
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
- _) `: X7 U3 i" w8 jmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught5 F; B/ V- f5 X. X' b- r) r
in the moment.”
* _, A+ T b0 \0 L3 }/ {In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- s+ y; a6 g9 ^# P) I& @5 L1 `1 N
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
& T8 M$ z4 Y1 r8 }+ J5 [All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”3 x% Z3 p- e* v
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear' `& I6 _# l; ^" a
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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