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9 `5 n5 C4 m; Y4 M# `‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
+ N- R% H6 J, ^' |7 _Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
/ E8 H' r2 ^( nNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading ]7 M+ \. v# y; d) J
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
, { n+ b! U" D! u7 Q+ C1 q% ISources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the, e ?6 H: ^& ?# I" ~. Y7 y/ _, I/ j
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January9 L+ y/ {0 b) a
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( D( r- k) p& b! E5 U0 r' M”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
* p$ @# a& D5 t”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over2 j. R1 R: c! K2 ^+ g' b# f) O
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
6 S' Z! S, M9 i! H5 e& _! Q, Npure luck.! e% I7 ~3 M0 V
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers; o' V* p" ~3 f2 y# ]8 q
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
2 \/ z+ i& O* E: L( M9 M ]/ K% F8 a0 RThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin- N$ A- H) y$ g+ q3 A3 R0 F
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
+ c A( e8 M+ @7 t# [4 }Street watchdogs.
, C1 y9 X& w5 S: h1 a”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
+ T" z, I% l$ i& m$ Z2 |9 f2 ?7 KMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
" _# E- X3 S6 @( Rinvestigation.
- z# e, A+ _0 |( F9 ?3 ^When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
: e! T* k- |' `% Wfour-hour confession.
, g. P% j+ Q+ Z) Z$ p! O) J5 HCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
* k& D: I/ M+ a5 W3 D) m6 d& y( b% rknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with m5 C% a+ a: m- R$ `6 S7 O) F
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.9 M8 n9 i/ a% `" m; k1 y
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
8 L. f8 L0 e7 h9 s# O5 i- f/ umake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
! m Z1 _8 N# ?/ q7 i6 Lin the moment.”
" _8 v* G/ `% i5 E- Q9 l! HIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: `* o+ H" ~& x
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.: J1 l. A# ]$ C
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”& b4 t7 D/ u' @" w* _( O4 k
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear; N7 C/ f7 J" h0 T5 g
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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