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# S. y3 e& |# b8 d# g‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
/ H5 m3 V4 R7 OWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN8 p8 X3 u$ B0 \6 F; }3 d5 o* F- t
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading! d- f9 Z9 I6 j- t: {4 q9 }
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!- s( M3 R* l9 c" ]7 B
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the& y' W( {: y, _( d: `$ ?
bizarre 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.
5 a# {5 u+ j$ R) B8 z+ s7 n3 Y”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over5 ^. w% F3 R1 R2 i2 E
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be3 P4 T8 Q2 L, n, Q2 T
pure luck.
3 U }& p8 V2 m1 x”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
+ [# j: G2 z$ \3 @( f7 ^' xIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
( N1 E X; k+ G1 d9 i/ ~9 oThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
; H! ~5 ^; _0 N' g4 [made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall, B8 p0 @# V! Z) O2 A3 N
Street watchdogs.
& D+ q& U6 y9 G; J) g; g( C”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,( @6 S5 u& O2 S) g7 ~+ e* l2 g, o
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing* Z a. K: @$ C5 f; f, w p' h
investigation.0 Q( X) G% m( ^' ^& |4 e
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling( z1 }; N& P2 E# ]& D. Y
four-hour confession.3 z3 J2 \' b- [7 x
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common3 Y$ Z# T; W5 W
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: B* p4 z1 J0 s, P$ Q
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
; {5 W4 M$ U# ]! Z, r( a8 [”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
# c! r7 j- W1 W& K, R1 ?3 b) Q; l, Mmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
A. D6 B" v6 \ d0 A+ I! ^in the moment.”
% q. P# V8 ^& SIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: q m/ u. Z3 e& _$ z+ _/ T6 I
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS." s% I9 g; n8 E6 X
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”; Y" D% X4 J% a. F0 ?9 M$ _
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, z! F& l! |* H: X" p9 W
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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