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> 'TIME-TRAVELER' BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING
> Wednesday March 19, 2003
>
> By CHAD KULTGEN
>
> NEW YORK -- Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall
> Street wiz on
>
> insider-trading charges -- and incredibly, he claims to be a
> time-traveler from the year 2256!
>
>
> Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that
> 44-year-old Andrew
>
> Carlssin offered the bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in
> the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January 28.
>
>
> "We don't believe this guy's story -- he's either a lunatic or a
> pathological liar," says an SEC insider.
>
> "But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two
> weeks' time he
>
> had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made
> capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can't
> be pure luck.
>
>
> "The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information.
> He's going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers Island until he agrees to
> give up his
> sources."
>
>
> The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors
> crying in their beer. So when Carlssin made a flurry of 126 high-risk
> trades and came out
> the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall Street watchdogs.
>
>
>
> "If a company's stock rose due to a merger or technological
> breakthrough that was supposed to be secret, Mr. Carlssin somehow knew
> about it in advance," says
> the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing investigation.
>
>
> When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more
> than they bargained for: A mind-boggling four-hour confession.
>
> Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200
> years in the
>
> future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of
> the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of
> the handful of
> stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
>
>
> "It was just too tempting to resist," Carlssin allegedly said in his
> videotaped
>
> confession. "I had planned to make it look natural, you know, lose a
> little here and there so it doesn't look too perfect. But I just got
> caught in the moment."
>
>
>
> In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge
> "historical facts" such as the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden and a
> cure for AIDS.
>
> All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his "time
> craft."
>
>
> However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss
> how it
>
> works, supposedly out of fear the technology could "fall into the
> wrong hands."
>
> Officials are quite confident the "time-traveler's" claims are bogus.
> Yet the SEC source admits, "No one can find any record of any Andrew
> Carlssin existing
>
> anywhere before December 2002."
>
>
>