Dale Edward Lowell just needed a bit more money. A few dollars here and there - anything to help him make another investment in a stock market he was sure he could figure out. It never worked, but, in his mind, success was just another investment away. That’s what the former North Idaho real estate agent told a federal judge Wednesday when he was sentenced to three yeas in prison for a Ponzi scheme that collected more than $2 million from duped investors in the Sandpoint and Coeur d’Alene area. Lowell met many of the investors while a pianist for a Sandpoint church. “I never considered for a moment I might fail,” Lowell, 59. He said he doesn’t know when he experienced his ethical collapse, “what I do know is that I did, and it had dreadful consequences”/Meghann Cuniff, SR Sirens & Gavels. More here.

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