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8 @. a* U9 O* G+ K8 r0 \‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
- b) Y Z6 h9 Y: d5 {8 SWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
5 N% c/ p' j+ ?" R' z8 ANEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
; C( _& q5 y: ]* Z8 G5 r$ Icharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 [' M4 Y7 @8 v4 f( G; k3 N- [2 C
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the3 ?0 a5 j0 @. F7 @2 B. H, r( E
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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) v- @% q# `- w( R% R”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.; [; f O; U3 U X( L$ N+ [
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
X3 c# \5 n) @. M3 H4 I$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
$ T6 B4 U& n* P# I3 Ypure luck.3 V& ?3 N& [# |0 w! ]( |* j3 A
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
" R' s0 o9 R4 e7 F; @made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, R1 O& v$ z/ U) X: W
Street watchdogs. d9 ^4 K5 \* L4 p; b+ k7 k/ p2 c( v
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
4 E# s* z( T5 AMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing7 C9 F* y, J+ e; U2 b5 n& z
investigation.3 D2 I6 t' K: w Z2 ?
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling) U5 ?% d( e) l1 W5 y+ v( U$ c3 Q
four-hour confession.+ m- \# [0 P# S8 h2 H* f# u4 I$ n& U& ]
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
8 H0 T7 Q ^; l/ u0 E* y# l5 Zknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with5 L; Z% s) }' ^& ?/ e" m9 U8 H* ?
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.4 `4 e3 ? R! ^' C0 v0 x# E) L
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% r% f& n3 b$ v, a
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
+ v7 u! d& J( g0 Tin the moment.”9 K* Z) \* M' \* K1 W" |. _; {+ k2 u
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of% f/ f4 e+ O" j6 O1 r6 o/ ?
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
$ b' t- \& ~3 NAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 P! v1 H7 n* H! ^3 U
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear5 E: A" i% P- C0 }
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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