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4 c9 O9 t5 @; f- N5 y+ S‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING+ b+ }5 R! m4 A% f
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN+ ~5 d, y+ ~5 v9 `' l* E& b( b
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! R# c& a3 }) w9 d* ocharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
" p. P" ^' ^! o0 G' U4 TSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the6 }* u8 Q) C" L" u
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January3 Z8 _2 T2 i! I# W
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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.
9 w" D8 c$ O: f9 r8 a”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over% ], R7 K( p' d
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
( |0 [& w5 \% s8 y$ u% w/ V4 fpure luck.
! i* _6 V2 }7 [”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers/ u9 b9 @7 R8 H6 A" T& }
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”3 g4 q3 C$ f+ V
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin3 G) \) ^7 h: }- o M$ W
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& k$ `: Z1 g- |& P, B4 w$ Q7 x
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
# L/ E0 Y! t* s5 jinvestigation.' H. W3 J" {6 S$ {* D0 V$ Y' F8 o
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
1 r; I1 b6 k7 K/ B/ ~four-hour confession.' o$ [: [+ S6 u6 R" k9 k& N
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
$ |3 S- ?) s. r5 b" Y( lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
" m' M8 |1 u* o! \6 ^$ I# w. ?% ^; xknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
, |; K i* Z* P”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to& X- V( [4 G8 K) ^, Q0 ^$ f
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught9 W4 j; c3 D7 Y0 Y3 q! W/ V+ ]3 n" e
in the moment.”
9 d" }/ ~7 a& w+ Z, X. v6 zIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: _& y% e3 Z0 t/ u' I" B; `
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
! T# H" D4 N. o6 m8 v/ n. ^All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”9 _7 ^8 k7 t! u: t: G, \) F: c
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear) @# N* B) f# ]9 g7 i9 @7 j
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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