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." Weekly World News will continue to follow this story as it unfolds. Keep watching for further developments.
i hope he is telling the truth myself, that way we will have the cure for aids and bin ladens but to boot.
He's a fake! It's common knowledge that in 2212 time travelling was banned because Ben Laden's descendant tryed to conquer the world by attacking Bush JR with a bretzel(almost worked!). ALA
Marty McFly: Wait a minute, Doc, are you trying to tell me that my mother has got the hots for me? Dr. Emmett "Doc" L. Brown: Precisely. Marty McFly: Whoa, this is heavy. Dr. Emmett "Doc" L. Brown: There's that word again; "heavy". Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the earth's gravitational pull? I just had to.
He brought back the sports page from his era, also... April 28, 2256: Salt Lake City - The Portland Trailblazers defeated the Utah Jazz 97-93 yesterday, beating Utah 4 games to 2 in the first round of the NBA playoffs. This marks the third consecutive that the Jazz have failed to reach the second round of the playoffs. Karl Malone led the Jazz with 25 points and 12 rebounds, and John Stockton added 15 points and 8 assists, but it proved not to be enough, as Lebron James VIII led Portland to the victory with 45 points and 10 rebounds. The Jazz have made the playoffs for an NBA record 272 years, but have never won that elusive NBA title. The futures of Stockton and Malone, who have played together for 270 of those 272 years, are once again in doubt as both of their contracts are up. "It's real tough losing like this again", Malone said after the game. "We really felt that we had a shot at the ring this year. "I'm not sure what my future will hold", said Stockton, who passed the 225,000 assist plateau. "I'll probably wait a couple of months and talk about things with my wife before making a decision"
