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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING5 X; |! B6 B8 Q5 \- K
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
% Q2 {& v1 P& P" oNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
! T1 h) e- h' `6 ^& ?1 g+ _- b' mcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 ]+ W6 s4 U1 ?; ]
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
& I) w; O" n$ j& [7 ?( q, Z5 Ibizarre 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.
2 f( s5 S! {0 [. i, B”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over& X8 W+ B! r) H1 \# p# D+ ]
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
\% ]+ B- [/ C: J1 F0 ~: \: Upure luck.
4 }0 @* o2 b2 L& r* r+ W: d1 U”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers5 @4 l' V- L+ T7 V8 K: e, O& T
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
7 ~; D/ g9 e- e% pThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin0 G' a. Z5 B% W$ O, D' C/ ?8 ~
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, |8 |' N. t/ _# {) ?
Street watchdogs./ C' V; @4 R5 N( n. F/ ~$ N
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; ]' t3 l, Z. ~8 i! Z( Q! a
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing$ ]$ |/ [, ], D% a1 o+ V6 b
investigation.$ y0 s# J2 O" X. W- I2 z
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
0 j1 B& t, V6 m( }* S3 a/ Dfour-hour confession.
7 s% t9 x' f, \$ }1 q1 y* p7 E5 [Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common; k4 i9 i6 H2 O0 h# h" j
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: E9 o' Z3 I/ Y& v% {& R1 Z- M( V
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune./ R, ]: e1 N4 n
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' L6 e4 C7 k& \% M- u/ ^
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught Z& }' z* e4 Q0 K/ k4 z/ X
in the moment.”3 e1 h( w5 c5 W: p" {
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of& y5 v7 P' ]2 l0 {3 |( P/ r
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
5 o1 W- a0 H( L% OAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% W! P' L7 C+ j: k x$ f; ^+ f/ o3 c! {However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear+ M1 [. g8 M0 S+ S' P# X
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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