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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING6 j: _3 Y# g; C/ b0 y( Z3 |5 |
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
7 [9 V ^' [& U2 w: @" SNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
3 {) Y7 l, f- h# @# C3 Mcharges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!$ ?$ }/ [0 U! N% b1 ?& F) p
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
. ~6 X4 r8 m6 G; zbizarre 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.
X& ~. @& O$ B”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
( I' y1 y1 g! |5 q$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be. b J5 y( E4 `" R* q
pure luck.
8 v$ j# G( G: R( u, q& `9 Y7 ?6 A, i”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers! N E# a% J8 q' I) N! h" o
Island until he agrees to give up his sources.”
0 L/ C+ V. r1 b M+ nThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
, _# C, ]9 J5 x% Gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
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”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,9 q& G9 Z+ v0 j4 D( [+ X1 R% }
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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1 B$ W& A- r/ v+ h! S. q( xWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
+ _8 @, Z$ M+ K' qfour-hour confession.
& C! B- _0 c7 ^7 a9 j6 j \Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
$ j9 U9 L- S/ k; S6 q" D1 t/ ?, T% O5 lknowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 ?/ W0 r2 A3 w1 w$ [5 z- N1 u
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune." t- Q3 H7 V* e' V: C
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to% @; L) S* j( p# O: k
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ T; _, e( T7 |2 o5 A' Y J
in the moment.”
( d. h" [. |/ a4 gIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 }, k# _, P; K$ c! \8 s" kOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
. {2 I- t+ P+ m' C$ ~: x, n% fAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
+ B. y; A- u( x0 r; i- q+ z# A9 qHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
4 T, T/ {1 y6 r* S1 e2 v( ?7 J: O; othe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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