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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING9 x9 j9 x) J4 Z9 i; C& v% V
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
* H. ~0 ]# ~, o9 H6 t4 VNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading+ T0 G/ H4 z' _+ t& ^0 r
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!0 n, j9 \/ D7 H2 H7 Y
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
2 X0 B5 e( a6 U8 U2 H. `$ `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.
4 `* I; K( r) C _8 G# ~; }”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
% h' N$ c) U) H& e" U. I$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be% W1 D/ ?: `' U5 `$ c
pure luck.
9 V2 y0 d1 V9 N1 ^0 E”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ R' y6 W F' ?. T* nIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”8 t9 {' }5 W4 ?. G. D
The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin% t! ]+ [; g- Y! w* B7 z0 t( b
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
7 e3 O% ^# I8 |) kStreet watchdogs.
2 p Y3 k- C4 r k0 h' A”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,6 u7 ]1 ]5 f3 d8 ~3 U
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing6 ~; H0 `. J. O: J+ v; D+ m
investigation.
" _9 L: j8 s# l1 I+ Z3 N- _2 sWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling7 o6 m) I/ ?" {7 _7 O3 K: k# ~
four-hour confession.
6 V4 Z* C$ E4 M. w& c1 jCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common4 i: r1 i9 |6 R% h3 Y
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with: b# {( s& L5 x, K+ K
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
' o8 j2 c7 g O Y& A9 `6 }" {1 f”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to' [6 S' i3 n, C% U5 C2 C
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught
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In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# @# a3 T7 J; M! z, v7 C) ?Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS., g% E& d2 Z7 ?; h
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
( Q4 k7 z" a7 m' QHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear( `* ?2 ]0 q4 q, m; Y, h8 ?
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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