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, B9 Y8 D: a! R' M3 L‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING! g3 e+ Y9 P, C
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN: k0 p: U @7 y" B
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
6 D, l' p) [5 j6 z7 Ycharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!8 f9 ?( Z- h2 |) C4 s
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
; q9 x ^, L! w$ m7 X7 \! P: B* t, Xbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 U% x/ g% H, Q M$ p: m
28.
e1 W8 k8 W, R9 Y2 C, ^”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
/ _1 O4 V) U4 ~. N' x, j8 E”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( F4 |% C7 ~7 L6 P2 F* a9 p$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
& I! N+ q! o: ]8 Hpure luck.
7 N7 j1 z/ o( a”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
; Y8 w" w9 ^9 M, ?& z! | r9 a! O! w" VIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”' v5 `7 U* G( {8 K+ J3 V
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin7 m' v, r3 `/ k4 J/ x
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall6 A4 v# x9 f# f+ G& D! O/ j
Street watchdogs.
* z- x/ d1 K8 E* ?”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
& u. m/ V6 J, D1 Y9 v& XMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
- n9 D7 b' U7 e# t4 V4 Q6 [4 iinvestigation.$ E* A" }' C K& f: d }
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling; r& v4 e! r) D
four-hour confession.
1 H1 f7 A4 S) {7 d0 ^( mCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
5 n4 z) ~! J: y8 l3 y X: Eknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
3 A8 ~0 C9 P$ a- Cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; y) b! C# j" ]5 H
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to7 e' `) W5 Z- I; \2 j
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
& g: ^$ a4 ]5 D8 b/ k. l( |! bin the moment.”. M) e0 G& Q& c' W6 b+ ?; A
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
! ]" g) D. q, h2 ^Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
l5 c. ?( k! n9 Z& s% X Y, yAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- y+ @/ v/ f. B: T4 f& N
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
& ^! I& S" y! I5 `$ _( L6 Cthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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