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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
8 S" G; J+ l# M6 @7 e' V' v6 H6 I) J, bWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
: U% [0 E' Z3 Y0 l5 }& sNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
7 Q# `3 c/ a& p. y+ T% T0 wcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
. ]# A+ d5 C% j/ h* N0 ySources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
6 ]: N8 a0 u# c% i9 W) _ s+ Jbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January2 C, _- E% k* x/ Z6 Q. c( M+ ]
28.
- T" p& h ^/ L* n”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
u+ B- x7 x- b3 b6 T0 T; D/ t”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
4 D" R% @; _5 j n$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
3 A4 t' K% r) Q! @! |0 zpure luck.$ e+ K% g y5 p2 R, }" d9 _+ k# y
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ T2 A& t% h: H0 \* z8 f: Z3 G4 DIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”! ~" {. i( G# e' O) ~: J
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
, ^4 t, x3 m$ ^( D2 f1 t9 y. P3 m5 @made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall$ N8 t y( ~& w' R
Street watchdogs.& L5 B" q# b# n
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
: T0 H# T1 o( z$ B) eMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
* _& F- c" X- e- u; m* Binvestigation.
" W4 P9 C8 K. ]6 R% w: wWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
- C: ^2 t# C5 g4 x' T' f, dfour-hour confession.
i' g, u4 s/ K& C1 uCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
P' d J* A" c0 lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
8 ?8 |5 C, P( [; y. s3 ]" hknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
7 D! S2 ?6 n+ R1 U* ~" d”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to j6 s( E6 e/ @0 {
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
; E1 r8 N* q5 Din the moment.”
9 p6 F3 r) E& W l ~In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of$ r8 {* o0 \' O# m# i8 G1 T
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ V: t6 ~# q! M: D- ]8 D' y# DAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
# O9 V7 \1 z5 u7 f9 wHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear9 \/ V' c! u# q: w& y- A# F6 @
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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