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To: Bocor who wrote (26084)	10/9/2000 7:45:09 PM
From: s-words	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to 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...

To: Bocor who wrote (26084)	10/9/2000 8:09:47 PM
From: IceShark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

I think that is right. Got pretty messed up with drugs when he was younger and started robbing banks for the money. Not a smart idea.

To: Bocor who wrote (26084)	10/9/2000 8:33:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

>>Michael Murphy may be one of the few Registered Investment Advisers who has a Presidential Pardon. His new book, Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks & Mutual Funds, tells the story. After four years at Harvard and a year working in New York, he entered law school. It was the mid-60s and, in the spirit of the times, he tried LSD twice (it was legal at the time). A triple dose led to a disastrous personality breakdown. He dropped out of law school and tried to tough it out. He borrowed money. Out of money, he robbed a bank. After his arrest his lawyer, the prosecutor and the judge concluded a bank robbery conviction was not certain. Instead, he pled guilty to assault and served two years, two months, two weeks and two days. He was released on parole to a new life in California, a new job with American Express, and a new start. After 18 months as a programmer and systems analyst, Murphy became the computer stock analyst for American Express. After becoming a Chartered Financial Analyst in 1975, he began work for The Capital Group in Los Angeles. In the summer of 1981, tired of commuting from San Francisco to Los Angeles every week, Murphy left Capital to found the California Technology Stock Letter. The California Technology Stock Letter published Issue #1 in January 1982. It's now in the #400s. The Letter was rated the #1 investment newsletter by Forbes in 1996. Murphy is featured monthly in Worth as an investment expert and is a frequent guest on CNBC and CNNfn. Every Investor's Guide to High-Tech Stocks & Mutual Funds details proven strategies for picking high-growth winners. Focusing on long-term investment strategies, including the easy-to-use Growth-Flow strategy, Murphy guides readers through the dos and don'ts of putting money into high tech. Michael Murphy lives in Half Moon Bay, California.<< annonline.com Wonder which president pardoned him?