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http://www.centurioncounsel.com/ ... Counselor_Q1-03.pdf5 L2 g0 k8 |* Z: S9 c
‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
0 L3 m6 K% a9 x9 I- ^Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
- M, @) Z+ ~0 a8 k1 |! |NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading5 J' ~! Q/ I2 ~! w8 G
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, J; K6 @! H: M, c& [Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
5 c+ _6 ~, R* i/ q G$ a, vbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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.4 i# t+ t( C/ a! p5 Q+ i
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
# `3 B% H R0 S, I$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be, P9 i0 d/ x) G3 ] Q3 f
pure luck.0 G5 g0 K: j8 @5 F& m2 {6 w
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
! z3 }2 k3 I8 y9 l* E, {Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
* j1 Z! t) D# e8 e% L. I! xThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin* O5 T* T$ V3 ?% G! D% S
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
. `( [0 V* Q3 q. [& t, V* x) N YStreet watchdogs.
# a4 |7 i. ?- q”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; \3 ^& H+ u2 d- l5 I9 O' M2 e
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ w! Q) S1 T" I0 A' v
investigation.
! \/ S {. N4 o0 vWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
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: l9 x, i' [. s _0 g: eCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
! K( F7 m. v; @7 D8 c9 P; q$ b8 o Jknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
/ o) M! {( Q q( }knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
P% F2 t$ F0 F* m”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
4 H7 f1 |" e& y' Y' emake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught: ?, f6 s' h) i+ i- p0 t$ L
in the moment.”
4 ]6 c, J( U- o4 [- `In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
. W- _! x3 T, F: k5 QOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.3 _4 X3 E$ w4 e0 \9 ?
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”6 y$ n0 Y: k! T2 L9 _0 E! A
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear& J: |, a! l5 g+ T3 G% @% n5 t
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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