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0 C9 ^/ b( |6 v, f‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING2 F% \7 Q+ X. }2 G( B8 z3 p
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN. |" n6 K, `. q1 x+ Z" L+ n* t% H
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading d8 X4 Q/ I/ S* n+ b' P
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!
& q) s5 U) M3 Z3 N4 zSources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the. D4 O- |9 \5 A! D
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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# P( D* M* _! T& { z”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.4 _; w2 I. k' t$ E' W6 @
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
5 ^! |# R- I. I0 k$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
7 W/ u. {/ ]2 u: k- d5 j- _! e( spure luck.& w. v- r! P; b. ^$ L
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
' b% Z( B+ T- D0 [Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”. K6 Y2 \8 f6 T$ V4 b$ N F+ R
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin' x$ U; \+ W; b; Y
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall+ \5 j" Q% } t& H0 ~3 {8 Q$ G
Street watchdogs.8 E( n8 l+ r3 t% a4 [; `, o, }/ b
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- p3 b5 D6 T/ h6 ?
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing" h4 a$ E i! ~. h/ e
investigation.8 c1 k/ W& Z" O7 H$ u) U& p2 _
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling2 ^) @& W6 T7 ^
four-hour confession.
! B: A" G8 f0 U( A( VCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common- r2 i/ v5 u, S: J! i; G
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with0 n! N- H* {* `7 n
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
" Y6 e! l, }( X9 }8 W& \' O u”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to1 e5 x0 ]5 h& \7 J# W5 e
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught* ^7 Y2 e( P/ _
in the moment.”
% b. g' @6 n: a. r$ _In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of- o( W: Q- l, [! [4 |
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
8 l2 C r* L5 k0 W# P* V* ?, QAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
2 D$ [1 k5 i0 w+ b7 c. e HHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
3 J8 j9 N. e: \ P- fthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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