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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams departs after for his arraignment on additional charges in his bribery and extortion case at the at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams departs after for his arraignment on additional charges in his bribery and extortion case at the at the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Attorney Thomas Kline speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. A Philadelphia judge has ordered prosecutors to criminally charge speeding Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian involved in a 2015 derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Attorney Richard Sprague speaks with members of the media during a news conference in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. A Philadelphia judge has ordered prosecutors to criminally charge speeding Amtrak engineer Brandon Bostian involved in a 2015 derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200.(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Attorneys Thomas Kline, left, Richard Sprague and Robert Mongeluzzi take part in a news conference while standing next to a photo of train engineer Brandon Bostian in Philadelphia, Thursday, May 11, 2017. A Philadelphia judge has ordered prosecutors to criminally charge the speeding Amtrak engineer involved in a 2015 derailment that killed eight people and injured about 200. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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FILE - In this undated Clark County Detention Center photo shows Shane Allen Schindler. Schindler, who police suspect killed two sleeping homeless men in Las Vegas, pleaded not guilty Thursday, May 11, 2017, to attempted murder in an unusual case alleging he tried to kill a mannequin that police posed as a decoy near the scene of the earlier slayings. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP, File)
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FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, firefighters from Sandusky, Ohio, and Perkins Township, Ohio, view the remains of an apartment building where firefighters Stephen Machcinski and James Dickman while killed while battling a Jan. 26, 2014, fire in Toledo, Ohio. Ray Abou-Arab, a building owner accused of setting the fire to collect insurance money, was sentenced Thursday, May 11, 2017, to 20 years in prison, after entering an Alford plea on involuntary manslaughter and aggravated arson charges. The Alford plea means Abou-Arab doesn't admit guilt, but concedes prosecutors had evidence to convict him. (Dave Zapotosky/The Blade via AP, File)
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FILE – In this Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, investigators begin a probe into the deaths of firefighters Stephen Machcinski and James Dickman while battling a Jan. 26, 2014, fire at an apartment building in Toledo, Ohio. Ray Abou-Arab, a building owner accused of setting the fire to collect insurance money, was sentenced Thursday, May 11, 2017, to 20 years in prison, after entering an Alford plea on involuntary manslaughter and aggravated arson charges. The Alford plea means Abou-Arab doesn't admit guilt, but concedes prosecutors had evidence to convict him. (Dave Zapotosky/The Blade via AP, File)
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Ray Abou-Arab gives a thumbs up as he is escorted from Lucas County Common Pleas Court Wednesday, May 11, 2017 in Toledo, Ohio. Abou-Arab, an Ohio building owner accused of arson that led to the deaths of two Toledo firefighters, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. A judge declared a mistrial Thursday for Abou-Arab, who then entered an Alford plea on involuntary manslaughter and aggravated arson charges. (Dave Zapotosky/The Blade via AP)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2015, file photo, former Penn State University assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky arrives for an appeal hearing at the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, Pa. A judge heard more testimony Thursday, May 11, 2017, in Sandusky's appeal of his 45-count conviction for child sexual abuse, as Sandusky argues his former defense lawyers didn't properly represent him in the 2012 trial. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 15, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Itza Ayala poses for a photo at a park in Houston on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. When school administrators didn't investigate her 15-year-old daughter's alleged sexual assault by another student, she says, her family turned to the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights. The office has struggled to keep up with an increase in complaints against school districts. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2013 file photo, former El Salvadoran military Col. Inocente Orlando Montano departs federal court, in Boston. More than a year after a his extradition was ordered, the former Salvadoran colonel remains far from answering charges of plotting the 1989 deaths of six Jesuit priests as an American judge considers legal entanglements still reverberating long after the country’s civil war. Now the failing health of 75-year-old Inocente Orlando Montano Morales raises the question of whether he will live long enough to face trial in Spain or El Salvador. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Multnomah County Sheriff's office shows Chad Camp. A federal judge in Portland, Ore., on Thursday, May 11, 2017, sentenced Camp to home detention and probation for groping a 13-year-old girl during a flight from Dallas to Portland last year. (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office via AP, File)
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FILE - This Sept. 21, 2015, file photo, shows the Volkswagen logo on a car for sale at New Century Volkswagen dealership in Glendale, Calif. On Thursday, May 11, 2017, a federal judge in San Francisco approved a $1.2 billion settlement with owners of about 88,500 Volkswagens with 3-liter diesel engines rigged to cheat on emissions tests. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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This undated photo provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Office shows Howard E. Watkins. Watkins and two other University of Illinois football players are charged with burglary and robbery after what they claimed to be a prank on a fellow dormitory resident. The players were charged Thursday, May 11, 2017, and were to be arraigned later in the day with residential burglary and aggravated robbery. (Champaign County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the Champaign County Sheriff's Office shows Darta L. Lee. Lee and two other University of Illinois football players are charged with burglary and robbery after what they claimed to be a prank on a fellow dormitory resident. The players were charged Thursday, May 11, 2017, and were to be arraigned later in the day with residential burglary and aggravated robbery. (Champaign County Sheriff's Office via AP)
