Every year The Man From FCPA thinks that corruption scandals cannot get any bigger or worse. Consider the following: 2012 Wal-Mart; 2013-GSK in China; 2014-Petrobras; 2015 (spring) FIFA; 2015 (fall VW); now in 2016 we have the alleged looting of the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB. The scandal has certainly crossed the globe with all its twists turns and permutations. Of all of the above scandals, only GSK went to trial and that trial was a one-day trial, held in secret in China, where a sentence was ‘delivered’ and later announced to the world.

Thomas Fox has practiced law for over 40 years. Tom writes the daily award-winning blog, the FCPA Compliance and Ethics blog and founded the Compliance Podcast Network. Tom leads the discussion on AI in...