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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING% T. i1 ?% \0 M
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 j1 @% Z& k' Q& F" W+ x: W; K
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
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, b' E; @9 L3 _Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the
+ O5 G% f& H+ f7 J2 t- R0 s5 }2 cbizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January+ |7 q/ Z# T& Y; {
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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.* g5 x- K* V2 R4 q) I6 m7 P9 z
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over
/ E$ z9 e1 [8 C( g; J5 ~4 r- n$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
6 | S/ S6 j+ \) S+ C7 v) x- H$ ?pure luck.' A( | _5 \4 s1 X8 S
”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
8 m* e6 _, w7 [! ]8 t9 H7 Ymade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall
! O. P# Z) R. Z; nStreet watchdogs.
+ T! J' y8 q/ |0 s, x”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,
$ y. k* ]7 W/ [7 U" uMr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing+ @5 Q- W4 k. J' w
investigation.! Y; T6 B8 ~5 b3 ^& ^# x% T" N
When investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling& B, ?! c* U# x; `1 R
four-hour confession.
9 ]3 g' o8 K4 l& g( t$ l; gCarlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common9 i# X T$ J( O# j$ p q- Z
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with8 i) q& m5 g8 G( Z* c0 j7 J
knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
! O4 ]% r, k; J3 z”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to5 M+ d/ V+ O$ C& J2 ?! E( C9 E* X
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught5 d r- m& F4 @. D! h2 Z" z
in the moment.”. M1 ~+ R" K, e" Q b# Y2 A2 j( [
In a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
# {* P$ u& h& d* F' V [! J( t+ eOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
9 w1 W4 I' `/ w; R2 O6 kAll he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”8 I, _/ V0 N9 [5 j' t. l
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
9 O: i4 K$ G1 qthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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