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‘TIME-TRAVELER’ BUSTED FOR INSIDER TRADING2 E8 r4 x# U9 F$ K5 h+ @
Wednesday March 19, 2003 By CHAD KULTGEN4 d$ ~' [( R; W/ a7 N+ C8 N
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 the7 E' j* P, ?$ j, N: F) {) B$ F" Q
bizarre explanation for his uncanny success in the stock market after being led off in handcuffs on January
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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., E5 @ _8 X( H$ L
”But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over* q* i3 ]) h+ J5 V6 z! k" S
$350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be2 B% p* {: `" l4 R
pure luck.
. K2 F; z# I$ k”The only way he could pull it off is with illegal inside information. He’s going to sit in a jail cell on Rikers
/ {9 s& g X; b- N3 }* vIsland until he agrees to give up his sources.”
' b5 c+ O1 |, n$ F* Z, LThe past year of nose-diving stock prices has left most investors crying in their beer. So when Carlssin
% T8 A3 T/ L( gmade a flurry of 126 high-risk trades and came out the winner every time, it raised the eyebrows of Wall7 D6 y' H/ }4 ~
Street watchdogs." C! ]+ o8 H! t; O+ x
”If a company’s stock rose due to a merger or technological breakthrough that was supposed to be secret,& ]+ N! i2 `" T9 Z
Mr. Carlssin somehow knew about it in advance,” says the SEC source close to the hush-hush, ongoing( _4 y* l5 u w6 o/ a$ X
investigation.
- \# \; H5 Z/ I* {" j. a+ Q) eWhen investigators hauled Carlssin in for questioning, they got more than they bargained for: A mindboggling
3 c* V/ i# V# F+ P" @0 \* Rfour-hour confession.: e5 E; x7 _* i: W: R! e$ r5 v
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common% c9 x. c- H6 ~
knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with
$ K+ b. x- l: W0 i. p, cknowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.% P) S9 K/ ~' U/ T( m0 g
”It was just too tempting to resist,” Carlssin allegedly said in his videotaped confession. “I had planned to
. Y0 o: i5 C5 Q% v$ M1 emake it look natural, you know, lose a little here and there so it doesn’t look too perfect. But I just got caught5 [! ~+ J* L% ?- L0 L4 `- x: f
in the moment.”
: Z5 c |4 L. \# p0 EIn a bid for leniency, Carlssin has reportedly offered to divulge “historical facts” such as the whereabouts of
0 Y4 d% K, t" y% N+ M# b& x. xOsama Bin Laden and a cure for AIDS.
/ M3 h: i, ^, R) {8 \All he wants is to be allowed to return to the future in his “time craft.”
% P4 c9 `' a0 g: q5 P& Q! {However, he refuses to reveal the location of the machine or discuss how it works, supposedly out of fear
, X8 h5 I' G5 I* I( nthe technology could “fall into the wrong hands.” |
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