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FILE - In this April 6, 2016, file photo, Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints women leave the Federal Courthouse following a hearing in Salt Lake City. Utah polygamous group leader John Wayman, charged in a multimillion dollar food-stamp fraud case, agreed to a plea deal in Salt Lake City on Thursday, Dec. 22, that secures his release from jail after six months. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, center, talks to members of the media as he walks out of a federal courthouse downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the corruption trial of Baca after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, third from left, with his wife, Carol Chiang, right, and his attorneys walk out of a federal courthouse downtown Los Angeles on Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the corruption trial of Baca after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, talks to members of the media as he walks out of a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. A federal judge declared a mistrial Thursday in the corruption trial of Baca after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. (AP Photo/Brian Melley)
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FILE - In this April 21, 2016, file photo, Joyce Ertel Hulbert, owner of a 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI, holds a sign while interviewed outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 13, 2015, file photo, a Volkswagen Touareg diesel is tested in the Environmental Protection Agency's cold temperature test facility in Ann Arbor, Mich. A federal judge says Volkswagen has reached a deal to compensate owners and leaseholders of the remaining 80,000 diesel vehicles caught up in the company's emissions cheating scandal. But U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer didn't say Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, how much the owners and leaseholders would receive on top of a buyback or repairs of their cars. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)
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FILE - In this May 19, 2004, file photo, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca talks with reporters as he leads a tour inside the Men's Central Jail at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in Los Angeles. Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Baca have announced Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, they are hopelessly deadlocked. The judge made the decision Thursday as the jury was in its third day of deliberations. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2012, file photo, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca, speaks in Los Angeles. A federal judge has declared a mistrial in the corruption trial of former Los Angeles County Sheriff Baca after jurors said they were hopelessly deadlocked. The judge made the decision Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, as the jury was in its third day of deliberations. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla., Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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In this Wednesday Dec. 21, 2016 photo, FBI investigators remove a backhoe seized from the Crawford, N.Y., property of former Briarcliff Manor Police officer Nicholas Tartaglione. The retired police officer has been accused of killing four men who went missing during a drug deal this year, and authorities have discovered the remains of four bodies on property linked to him. Tartaglione was arrested on Monday, Dec. 19, on charges of murder and conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms and more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. (James Nani/Times Herald-Record via AP)
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In this Feb. 9, 2001 photo, former Briarcliff Manor Police officer Nick Tartaglione is shown at home with his former K-9 partner "Angus". The retired police officer has been accused of killing four men who went missing during a drug deal this year, and authorities have discovered the remains of four bodies on property linked to him. Tartaglione was arrested on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, on charges of murder and conspiracy to distribute 5 kilograms and more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. (Stuart Bayer/The Journal News via AP)
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This undated composite photo provided by the Cheyenne Police Department on Dec. 22, 2016 shows Zachery Munoz. A half-eaten peanut butter and jelly sandwich found at a burglary scene lead Wyoming police to arrest Munoz. (Cheyenne Police Department via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo, provided by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction shows Brandon Moore. A 112-year prison sentence imposed on Moore, a convicted rapist for crimes he committed at age 15, is unconstitutional because it doesn't allow any opportunity for possible release, a divided Ohio Supreme Court ruled Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016. (Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction via AP, File)
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Law enforcement officials, left, and right, stand near opponents of Narragansett Chief Sachem Matthew Thomas outside an entrance to the tribe's administration building, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2016, in Charlestown, R.I. A faction of the tribe opposed to Thomas has been occupying the administration building since Tuesday. Two competing factions, each calling themselves the Narragansett Tribal Council, claim to be the leaders of Rhode Island's only federally recognized tribe. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott)
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In this Oct. 25, 2016 photo, Sandra Smith, left, Tasha Hart, center, and Domonique McNeil, right, attend a news conference in Egg Harbor Township N.J., about the drowning deaths of relatives at a beach in North Wildwood N.J. A New Jersey town being sued for the drowning death of a man swept out to sea when the sand collapsed underneath him says it is immune from lawsuits due to a state law governing unimproved public property. North Wildwood claims the law puts the risk for use of such property on the user. The lawyer for one of the victims' family says the town was negligent in its supervision of a public recreational facility.(AP Photo/Wayne Parry)
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This Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2016 booking photo released by Polk County Sheriff's office, Susan Ackerman at the Polk County Jail in Des Moines, Iowa. The former administrative law judge for Iowa Workforce Development has been charged with fraud for allegedly adding her ineligible daughter to her state insurance plan, in a case that her supporters are calling politically motivated. In 2014, Ackerman helped expose "perceived pressure" on judges to favor employers over jobless workers in disputes over unemployment benefits. (Polk County Sheriff's Office via AP)
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Construction continues on the new Tappan Zee Bridge near Tarrytown, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. The new bridge about 25 miles north of New York City stands next to the 61-year-old Tappan Zee that has been falling apart for years. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Construction workers walk on the new Tappan Zee Bridge while the old one, right, is still in use near Tarrytown, N.Y., Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2016. Work on the 3-mile bridge began in 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Michael Moya, accused of stealing cash from a Toys for Tots donation canister, is shown here in this mug shot in a story aired on WNEP-TV. Screen capture from video at http://wnep.com/2016/12/21/suspected-toys-for-tots-thief-nabbed-in-monroe-county/
