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To: Bocor who wrote (26084)10/9/2000 7:45:09 PM
From: s-words  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
If I may respond...I did a search on wsj for Murphy and LSD (not kidding) and found a couple of articles about this. I can't post a link, but here's one headline:

From bank robber to tech stock expert
David Henry

01/15/1998

Excerpt:
...Murphy says the trouble started during law
school when he experimented with
LSD after reading an interview with acid
advocate Timothy Leary. "I tried it twice,
but accidentally took a triple dose and had a
disastrous personality breakdown,"
he recounts. He dropped out of law school,
spent his savings, borrowed money
he couldn't pay back and started robbing banks.
He got caught his second time
out...

...After 261/2 months
of incarceration, he was
paroled and hired to program computers for
American Express money managers
in California. Five years later he had proved
himself as a computer stock analyst.
His bosses and sentencing judge helped him get
a presidential pardon so he
could be a bonded investment professional on a
new American Express index
fund, he says in an interview...
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