A Couple Won the Powerball. Investing It Turned Into Tragedy.
In spring 2008, Paul Rosenau, a construction supervisor and heavy-equipment operator in Waseca, Minn., bought a Powerball ticket—and hit a $59.6 million after-tax jackpot. Rosenau, a devout Lutheran and the son of a pastor, recalls with a tremor in his voice how he and his wife, Sue Rosenau, felt when they woke up the next morning. “We were very sure [the Powerball jackpot] was divine intervention,” Rosenau recalls, “and we were very sure what we were supposed to do with it.”
The Wall Street Journal•