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• Records indicate that Lowrance, who once lived in Houston but was last year extradited by federal authorities from Peru, set up his New Zealand company in early 2007. The Companies Office didn't shut it down until mid-2010, eight months after the U.S. District Court of South Dakota issued a $42 million default judgment against Lowrance.
• According to another civil judgment filed in Illinois, Lowrance told his 400-plus victims they would get returns of up to 7 percent each month by investing in his foreign currency trading scheme. In fact, Lowrance kept the money for himself, the judgment says, using some of it to fund an unsuccessful religious newspaper called "USA Tomorrow."
• Lowrance's victims included a 78-year-old retired Illinois school teacher and a 77-year-old California woman who sold books and flags on eBay.
• Under the terms of his plea deal in the criminal case, Lowrance is due to be sen

tenced later this year to a maximum 15 years, 8 months in prison.
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• PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- Gov. Dennis Daugaard is asking that all flags in South Dakota be flown at half-staff on Wednesday in honor of former state Rep. Maurice LaRue of Sturgis.
• LaRue died Saturday after a battle with cancer. His funeral is Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church in Sturgis.
• LaRue served in the state House in 2003 and 2004. He also was a mayor of Sturgis.
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