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FILE - In this June 4, 2012, file photo, former assistant United States Attorney Reid Schar speaks during an interview at the office of his law firm Jenner & Block in Chicago. Schar, who served 13 years as as an assistant U.S. attorney, was the lead prosecutor in former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption trial. On Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, the New Jersey Assembly tapped Schar as special counsel to advise a legislative committee plot that shut down lanes to the George Washington Bridge for four days in September. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)

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An undated photo released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Patricia M. Ferrick, appointed in September 2013 as special agent in charge of the FBI's New Haven, Conn., Division. In an interview with the The Associated Press Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, Ferrick said that investigating public corruption is a top priority for her. (AP Photo/Federal Bureau of Investigation)

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Joe Iacono, 62, who was abused in the early 1960s while he was a student at St. John Vianney Catholic School in North Lake, Ill., holds a photo of him taken in 1960 when he was 9-years-old, while talking about The Archdiocese of Chicago releasing thousands of pages documenting clergy sex abuse allegations to victims' attorneys who have for years fought to hold the Catholic Church accountable for its handling of such claims, at his home Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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Joe Iacono, 62, who was abused in the early 1960s while he was a student at St. John Vianney Catholic School in North Lake, Ill., talks about The Archdiocese of Chicago releasing thousands of pages documenting clergy sex abuse allegations to victims' attorneys who have for years fought to hold the Catholic Church accountable for its handling of such claims, at his home Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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Bishop Francis Kane, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago, left, responds to a question about what the archdiocese knew about decades of clergy sex abuse allegations during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Chicago. Standing behind Kane is archdiocese attorney John O’Malley. Victims’ attorneys, who have fought for years to hold the Catholic Church accountable for concealing crimes and sometimes reassigning priests to positions where continued to molest children, said they expect to receive the documents on Wednesday afternoon and make them public next week. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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John O’Malley, attorney for the Archdiocese of Chicago, responds to a question about what the archdiocese knew about decades of clergy sex abuse allegations during a news conference Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, in Chicago. Standing behind O'Malley is Bishop Francis Kane, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago. Victims’ attorneys, who have fought for years to hold the Catholic Church accountable for concealing crimes and sometimes reassigning priests to positions where continued to molest children, said they expect to receive the documents on Wednesday afternoon and make them public next week. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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Ammar Harris appears before District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney in Clark County District Court on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 in Las Vegas. Delaney agreed to postpone sentencing until Feb. 26 for a Harris, 27, a self-described pimp who was convicted of sexual assault in one case and is due to stand trial next September in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and crash that left three people dead. He could face life in prison for his conviction in the June 2010 sex attack on an 18-year-old woman at a Las Vegas condominium. Separately, Harris has pleaded not guilty and faces a death penalty trial in the Strip shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper, a cab driver and taxi passenger last Feb. 21. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)

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Ammar Harris appears before District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney in Clark County District Court on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 in Las Vegas. Delaney agreed to postpone sentencing until Feb. 26 for a Harris, 27, a self-described pimp who was convicted of sexual assault in one case and is due to stand trial next September in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and crash that left three people dead. He could face life in prison for his conviction in the June 2010 sex attack on an 18-year-old woman at a Las Vegas condominium. Separately, Harris has pleaded not guilty and faces a death penalty trial in the Strip shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper, a cab driver and taxi passenger last Feb. 21. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)

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Ammar Harris appears before District Court Judge Kathleen Delaney in Clark County District Court on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014 in Las Vegas. Delaney agreed to postpone sentencing until Feb. 26 for a Harris, 27, a self-described pimp who was convicted of sexual assault in one case and is due to stand trial next September in a Las Vegas Strip shooting and crash that left three people dead. He could face life in prison for his conviction in the June 2010 sex attack on an 18-year-old woman at a Las Vegas condominium. Separately, Harris has pleaded not guilty and faces a death penalty trial in the Strip shooting and crash that killed an aspiring rapper, a cab driver and taxi passenger last Feb. 21. (AP Photo/Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jeff Scheid)

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An Andy Warhol exhibit entitled "Jackie" a series of photos of former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, is seen in a media tour Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014, at The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla. "Warhol: Art. Fame. Mortality." opens to the public on Jan. 18 and runs until April 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)