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6 F% Y' \- x" D; l! a‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
4 e9 P4 P; v( P1 A2 \* K( p) t" QWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN7 Q5 t' S: g8 S" P. U4 N
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
- j. `" b- ]! ?) _7 Lcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- ` t' N( s3 k+ C/ f6 G
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
' a1 t' D" t0 f0 \- H. T7 hbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January( u& s0 p# b+ l! P
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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.+ l/ ], E% W% O9 G! a9 Z2 H3 X; H
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over, n0 z% [% {! a3 y. J$ w1 p* H
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
6 m6 z; n" r# F) I0 xpure luck.6 r8 ?* g1 g( F# Y" J/ a
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
2 \3 `, p7 d( y- pIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”2 p; G) Z6 K: l$ w
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
% m7 Z/ R+ C; Z8 I6 Amade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall/ l( z' e6 B2 ~) Q& ^0 p+ o
Street watchdogs.
G" z/ a+ ?$ H1 \8 u6 t”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,' ~" _: s% o8 L, g( v: ^
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
& n$ E5 g' L$ Q) w1 z6 c6 Q! @7 yinvestigation.
+ d- y S% o; _+ w, z' cWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
; Z) X; t( {2 Q @ L* Dfour-hour confession.2 ?$ A8 L' f9 c4 a2 `* W1 A! Z- @
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
" E" e9 O' r6 C2 A% g _knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
' e- B5 s% u0 C6 |2 M( b' P/ B. iknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! p" G T- A' G [" B2 {2 K”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to! l4 e1 @9 X! @5 }' w# h
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of' w3 ?* J8 L2 I4 a6 b
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
7 j+ L7 v# z; v* x, M) z% N0 ]" YAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”0 Z+ @! V) u$ ? }% R6 @4 ^
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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