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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING3 d) W5 v. x% c# I: k6 K2 n
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN9 P# D9 B& d: d* C& \
NEW YORK — Federal investigators have arrested an enigmatic Wall Street wiz on insider-trading
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Sources at the Security and Exchange Commission confirm that 44-year-old Andrew Carlssin offered the' |5 X; \# I6 h- e, H
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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4 b4 O+ h; {, q4 a/ Q2 t”We don’t believe this guy’s story — he’s either a lunatic or a pathological liar,” says an SEC insider.. ]& H; Y- j0 N) v$ B
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over' T, R. h: u) K! e6 s1 X9 z
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be
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”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
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The past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
2 O" g' n8 Y. h5 ?. z5 y* smade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall' t2 u& p, b. p3 ^, f, v1 t
Street watchdogs.5 `0 `% |0 R0 S h
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,; L% S$ @( X. E
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing
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% v/ S8 Q5 h4 d* R. @3 g8 pWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling% q& {/ c# V! f% p8 A
four-hour confession.6 \8 g, u% y, _; _- r
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common
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knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.; ~; @& T; D3 k9 J s
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to9 \5 r4 ?+ F- ?, U8 N
make it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught+ @& d' e* h4 c1 Z- n% p$ f9 S, I4 C
in the moment.”
/ V1 ^+ T7 P5 n* O6 g; {" SIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of! N- h- a% k- r
Osama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
) e" [" g4 Q# Y& X7 j0 A: \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”2 c1 q1 S* b z
However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
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