By May 2017, Larry Thompson had assembled his team for the Volkswagen monitorship.

He brought together corporate fraud investigators, compliance counselors, and environmental law experts. Key members of Thompson’s support team were Scott Marrah, deputy monitor for anti-fraud, ethics, and compliance, and Benjamin Wilson, deputy monitor for emissions and environmental. Marrah is a former assistant U.S. attorney and partner at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton. Wilson is chairman of environmental law firm Beveridge & Diamond.

Aly McDevitt is Data & Research Journalist at Compliance Week. She has a background in education and college consulting. Prior to teaching, she was an editor/author at Thomson Reuters, where she reported...