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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
) A7 y2 I, f$ ~, L! U- Y5 o8 uWednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
8 ]8 X3 ~# Q' PNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading0 I; ^( {( j* s# i
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!4 i5 i6 l+ P9 V: y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the9 ~% {/ T) @! t1 y( T) Z% D
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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/ d4 e+ Z* W- w. G; B3 r”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.
8 x7 x5 p/ z q+ Z5 w”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
: c* ~9 O( Y ~5 b/ c! N0 @$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
" S0 u, C& _ u* P4 Cpure luck.
( ^. U/ w/ `& ^" [”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
1 e8 C2 K$ y# hIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
" w8 [# G ]$ R% I2 D1 e4 {The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
* g( M2 D; F. a9 I2 d2 Wmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall c+ P H8 B0 d1 U6 D
Street watchdogs.
' _' C& F6 _# g( a2 m( D! u( Y. h”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
9 s3 U( e* c+ ?$ |9 \- J3 e: IMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing5 u/ n. c& G: w2 b
investigation.
S; [* I: W1 P7 QWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
6 K1 C# n$ ?: J' afour-hour confession.
2 J' E6 P' C& T4 ]0 a2 d2 k; {Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
( F$ x, w! S; Q& eknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with6 u; p" A' z5 v- \5 e
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
$ T8 a0 s P% `. M: L7 ]3 R”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! f( O7 U8 D& i+ Qmake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught# c3 o; {' L+ I4 W" S
in the moment.”' `! m R' L3 h9 G4 _! r4 ]
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
1 { O7 X. ~& @7 R) g" mOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.6 j0 s+ [ L1 v4 \
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”7 c/ F) ^' j' y! Y8 w1 e0 k
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear! b `+ Q4 z. v. n# C
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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