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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf7 v1 H: G( g; d/ @, S; B
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
+ c9 h- h# X: Y& m5 U& BWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: [& J3 N6 U I4 `" n9 w3 |NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading- Q0 I' Z- s$ l" c
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!5 E3 @" E& O$ |! y( K
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the- C- p- V% W' z6 u
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January4 C8 d: C4 M3 A4 B5 J
28.
8 `: P( d/ M0 `7 K/ ^”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
; ]) @( \3 z2 t3 J”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
; }6 @+ Q$ X2 j' u6 K4 y0 P5 w0 A$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be2 g0 v7 g' Y# h/ n2 w M" L
pure luck.
( w$ J. h3 V3 \2 P9 K. _2 n1 n f”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
& O7 a* S; z( O& L+ o, CIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
! c3 K# s4 _, _0 }8 n& g) }2 ?The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin9 K' A9 n c h4 a& h
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
, j. @0 N; A% u2 w: N# ]; b" uStreet watchdogs.
! E) x) d. Z: v5 j! p”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,9 ?' @- z9 S, l# L7 N- k( Z5 d
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
- C$ l7 }0 j1 V$ k. O7 Cinvestigation.$ E: B+ p6 A9 i* M# h5 Z9 I
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% N. T2 ~" e$ R/ B
four-hour confession.
/ i( ?: _( l8 d2 B/ lCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common. q& n. U) `8 C+ v& D' [& w
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with, I9 d' l3 I5 t0 }) e' G4 d
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 s3 a5 }& W) V+ a X5 r2 @! k9 U”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! x7 y# s! I V8 |: U. smake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
1 d& C G, \: {3 T4 ?" Z: min the moment.”+ W7 J% R4 k+ T# X
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
" z" _, H9 H- H7 `/ @Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." E( D( K. T" @) k2 D, ?! `
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”) {% p. J. \% `: @: `
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
5 q- N( {% X9 fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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