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t! P9 ?" a/ L) X‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING3 o j0 S [5 t
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN! X: j p, N( w
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading3 z1 s5 p& x6 o" {. B. {
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
. A5 w9 Q* S0 G: E; WSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
0 M4 [3 ? Z2 I1 y' o' {6 cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January- v. n+ {5 V* O- Y
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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.( ^" H5 B# U6 R
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
8 O5 a9 z" x. j' f. k( u$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
, n4 a! p/ v0 n7 fpure luck.: {3 `: }% A0 Q( |( N! l
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers$ c6 B3 N& q& k; S q' `
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( d# g, @) W0 L( n* f" l/ lThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin; e5 o* j+ n% ^5 s* l
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall; `+ e8 A. m$ b* w$ E4 ^ B
Street watchdogs.
, m9 V+ x0 C4 y& G3 ^& o u1 R”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
# Z9 ?7 l- R6 N" tMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing3 _$ |* h3 P" n) k" Y' n7 A7 \
investigation.
9 Y* p! ]' A, D# cWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
% d0 ?( y4 ?) Z+ E8 _# nfour-hour confession.
. f6 G) z* v+ Y0 U4 @2 W2 GCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 i6 y) X2 n0 ?$ K
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with! Q& G0 w, A8 [' g9 u9 v5 p# x
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.2 x) Y+ V' I. g1 \& B
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to: s* v V) s2 Z5 `/ O
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
3 e1 g9 ]' ~1 N5 G' ~) p5 kin the moment.”
0 D; x( z& ?' \9 f% HIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
4 ?! j: ]) F" M! F8 B+ g- `+ sOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
" G: L8 w' f6 y8 PAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”- G3 e5 k l; N" T
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
0 P9 T5 J s& h* S4 s* Jthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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