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National Edition News cover for April 12, 2014 - Firm in Chevron fraud case got federal funding: Lawyer Steven Donziger, right, speaks to Huaorani women during this first day of the trial against Chevron-Texaco, in Lago Agrio, Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2003. A decade after Texaco pulled out of the Amazon jungle, the U.S. petroleum giant went on trial Tuesday in a lawsuit filed on behalf of 30,000 poor Ecuadoreans who say the company's 20 years of drilling poisoned their homeland. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

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FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2012 file photo, former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford leaves The Citadel in Charleston, S.C. Sanford's ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, has accused the congressman of violating the couple’s divorce agreement. Their agreement is sealed and the complaint released by the family court was redacted and did not include what her ex-husband is accused of doing.(AP Photo/Bruce Smith, File)

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FILE- This undated file photo provided by the New York City Police Department on April 9, 2014, shows Officer Dennis Guerra. Prosecutors in New York have indicted a 16-year-old boy on a second-degree murder charge for setting the April 6 fire that killed Guerra and critically injured his partner as they responded to the blaze set in a Coney Island apartment building. Marcell Dockery faces up to 25 years-to-life in prison if convicted. (AP Photo/NYPD, File)

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Champaign County judge Chase Leonhard, left, looks at states attorney David DeThorne while signing a order for home isolation for a tuberculosis patient during a proceeding at the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District in Champaign, Ill., Friday, April 11, 2014. The judge's order allows the public health department to keep Christian Mbemba Ibanda isolated until tests show he's no longer contagious, which could take up to six weeks. (AP Photo/The News-Gazette, Rick Danzl) MANDATORY CREDIT

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Colombia's Alejandro Gonzalez returns a shot to fellow countryman Santiago Giraldo in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship, Friday, April 11, 2014, in Houston. Giraldo won 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

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Colombia's Santiago Giraldo returns a shot to fellow countryman Alejandro Gonzalez in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship, Friday, April 11, 2014, in Houston. Giraldo won 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

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Colombia's Santiago Giraldo returns a shot to fellow countryman Alejandro Gonzalez in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship, Friday, April 11, 2014, in Houston. Giraldo won 6-3, 6-4 to advance to the semifinals. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

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FILE - In this 2010 photo provided by the University of Missouri Athletic Department is Sasha Menu Courey. An independent report released Friday, April 11, 2014, says the University of Missouri failed to follow parts of the federal law that governs sexual harassment on campus when handling the case of a former swimmer’s suicide. The report concludes administrators on the Columbia campus should have investigated 20-year-old Sasha Menu Courey’s 2011 death after her parents raised questions about the events leading to her suicide. Menu Courey alleged she was sexually assaulted during her freshman year by as many as three football players, 16 months before she died. (AP Photo/University of Missouri Athletic Department)

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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2013 file photo, Ernest Wallace, an associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, waits for the judge to enter the courtroom during an appearance in Bristol Superior Court in Fall River, Mass., for a bail hearing on a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. On Friday, April 11, 2014, Wallace and Carlos Ortiz were both also indicted on charges of murdering Lloyd. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

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FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2014 file photo, Carlos Ortiz, an associate of former New England Patriots football player Aaron Hernandez, stands during a hearing in Bristol Superior Court in Fall River, Mass., on a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder in the death of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. On Friday, April 11, 2014, Ortiz and Ernest Wallace were both also indicted on charges of murdering Lloyd. (AP Photo/The Herald News of Fall River, Dave Souza, Pool, File)

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FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012, file photo, Todd Hoffner talks with reporters with his wife, Melodee, in Mankato, Minn., after a judge dismissed child pornography charges against him. An arbitrator has found that Minnesota State University, Mankato, had no grounds to fire head football coach Hoffner last May and has ordered that the university immediately reinstate him, an attorney for the coach confirmed Thursday, April 10, 2014. Hoffner, who was recently named head coach at Minot State, is considering whether or not he will return to Mankato, said attorney Jim Fleming. (AP Photo/Star Tribune, Marlin Levison) ST. PAUL OUT, MINNEAPOLIS AREA TV OUT, MAGS OUT