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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, center, talks to the media surrounded by his attorneys, David Hochman, left, and Nathan Hochman, right, outside federal court in Los Angeles Friday, May, 12, 2017. Baca was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. The 74-year-old Baca, who is in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease, was sentenced by a judge who has shown little leniency when it comes to Baca's role atop a department rife with corruption. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
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Michelina Suriano, one of the lawyers representing the victims of the Costa Concordia shipwreck, meets the media outside the Court of Cassation in Rome, Friday, May 12, 2017. The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid. The Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest criminal tribunal, in a ruling Friday evening, upheld Francesco Schettino’s lower court convictions and his 16-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Defense lawyer Saverio Senese meets the media outside the Court of Cassation in Rome, Friday, May 12, 2017. The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid. The Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest criminal tribunal, in a ruling Friday evening, upheld Francesco Schettino’s lower court convictions and his 16-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Defense lawyer Saverio Senese meets the media outside the Court of Cassation in Rome, Friday, May 12, 2017. The Italian captain of the Costa Concordia cruise liner that crashed into a reef in 2012, killing 32 people, was headed to a Rome prison after losing his final appeals bid. The Court of Cassation, Italy’s highest criminal tribunal, in a ruling Friday evening, upheld Francesco Schettino’s lower court convictions and his 16-year prison sentence. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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The seal of the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General Corps. (Wikimedia Commons)
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Dr. Larry Nassar listens during a preliminary hearing Friday, May 12, 2017, in Mason, Mich.. Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor who also worked for USA Gymnastics, faces sexual assault charges charges. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Rachael Denhollander, a former gymnast and patient of Dr. Larry Nassar, testifies during a preliminary hearing for Nassar, Friday, May 12, 2017, in Mason, Mich. Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor who also worked for USA Gymnastics, faces sexual assault charges charges. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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Shannon Smith, attorney for Dr. Larry Nassar whispers to her client during a preliminary hearing Friday, May 12, 2017, in Mason, Mich.. Nassar, a former Michigan State University doctor who also worked for USA Gymnastics, faces sexual assault charges charges. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP)
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People hug as emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Emergency personnel arrive to the scene of a shooting outside Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Law enforcement officials gather outside the scene of a shooting outside the Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Law enforcement officials, including Licking County Sheriff Randy Thorp, center, walk toward a news conference regarding a shooting at a nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Tom Dodge/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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CORRECTS BYLINE TO DORAL CHENOWETH III- A person is removed from the Pine Kirk nursing home in Kirkersville, Ohio on Friday, May 12, 2017. Authorities say Steven Eric Disario, who headed the Kirkersville Police Department, and two nursing home employees have been killed by a gunman who was later found dead inside the care facility. (Doral Chenoweth III/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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FILE - In this March 15, 2017, file photo, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca leaves federal court in Los Angeles. Lee Baca was sentenced Friday, May, 12, 2017, to three years in prison for obstructing an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, center, his wife Carol Chiang and his attorney Nathan Hochman, left, walk towards the federal courthouse in Los Angeles for Baca's sentencing hearing Friday, May 12, 2017. Baca, 74, faces up to 20 years in federal prison for obstructing a federal investigation into abuses and corruption in the nation's largest jail system. (Ed Crisostomo/Los Angeles Daily News via AP)
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Authorities investigate the scene of a three-alarm fire that killed multiple people and damaged three residences in south Montgomery County Friday, May 12, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. (Godofredo A. Vasquez/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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A firefighter with The Woodlands Fire Department works the scene of a two-story house fire that left multiple people dead Friday, May 12, 2017, in Conroe, Texas. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via AP)
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FILE - In this Wednesday, March 15, 2017, file photo, an Uber car drives through LaGuardia Airport in New York. From lawsuits to allegations of sexual harassment to a federal investigation into claims that it has used a fake version of its app to thwart authorities, Uber has had a rough year. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
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Arthur Peekel, left, a former admissions officer at Phillips Exeter Academy, follows his lawyer Philip Utter at Rockingham County Superior Court in Brentwood, N.H., Friday, May 12, 2017. Peekel plead guilty to assaulting a 14-year-old boy visiting the school in 1973. A judge approved a plea agreement for the 75-year-old, whose 12-month sentence was suspended and is required to register as a sex offender. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
