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' d" ^7 t+ m$ k‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING: L; \! F8 _( O
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN
Q4 {0 f9 e# _) `, v' C# CNEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading' `' q, F K( P( r0 u+ D
charges — and incredibly, he claims to be a time-traveler from the year 2256!% w5 n2 b1 c- e+ m, `1 S F+ R
Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
- Q- ]5 G5 r) Obizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January5 Y. ^1 d' i' V
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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.
3 }( M9 I/ J* o/ x% n7 S”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
3 e2 ?( q) c' l$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be$ z7 o7 q. W* |2 @. V
pure luck.+ w/ j: S! _$ R8 x4 c
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
7 I/ B% O5 Z* q( D5 y2 s6 xIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
& p/ e% Y6 T. T EThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin2 ?) N5 D0 F/ X$ x( k0 H3 I
made a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
1 T5 z) _( J2 M3 Q/ l& i% x8 s6 ?Street watchdogs.# o3 u1 c; \* y9 k5 t4 s
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,- m+ W0 K4 U$ C0 R2 ]6 D
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing5 \% N1 [. w% n) g" B+ f( [4 O" l+ S
investigation.4 Q4 X& f. M+ G9 E
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
U4 U# x% ]9 Y$ v4 efour-hour confession.
: X" j; X& l, ]2 E' s( pCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common( H4 l8 y0 T0 Q9 w/ C
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
* I9 g! g' q) @- W- d, H% oknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.+ b- t( j! S9 X/ i& Q! }
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
! Y$ V$ ^6 X' g: L) r }make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught/ o8 J- b$ [7 y# ?6 w8 t/ j2 n
in the moment.”
9 p: D' @9 l2 z c; B, UIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of: T4 z6 j! E# s: V
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.) w$ |, H: H- f( c3 @
All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
) z5 M) q" }0 b0 N# bHowever, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear, q! j: I) ^3 \+ C% W
the technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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