Condor lead poisoning persists, impeding recovery, says CU-UCSC study

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1. Any information on purposeful lead poisoning (aka shooting)

One of my primary charities is Operation Migration which is working to establish an Eastern Whooping Crane migratory population. From their June 7 field report:

"The eastern migratory and non-migratory Louisiana populations suffer even more from human predation. McConnell noted 11 cranes in the eastern and Louisiana populations have been shot in the last two years. Many of those cases are still unsolved. The most recent incident prior to the April 20 shooting in South Dakota was the January 2012 shooting of a male whooping crane in Knox County, Indiana. The crane was spotlighted and shot, according to FWS. Charges are pending against two men in their early twenties; Jason R. McCarter, 21, of Wheatland, and John C. Burke, 23, of Monroe City."

The problem is, in the past, courts have been very lenient to "hunters" who are killing Whoopers leveling fines of, in one case, $1 ( http://cs.birdwatchingdaily.com/brd/b/field_of_view/archive/2011/04/19/killers-of-whooping-crane-in-indiana-receive-probation-1-fine.aspx) Considering it costs well over $20,000 per crane to raise and train them on their first migration, the minimal punishment is discouraging.

Has the same thing occurred with Condors, and have perpetrators been prosecuted more strongly?