The series of forfeiture lawsuits recently filed by the Justice Department against those alleged to have looted the Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB will continue to be mined for information for some time to come. With the Complaint coming in at 136 pages, there is a wealth of information on the first and third parties involved in the massive fraud and how they accomplished it. It will be most interesting to see what might be the fallout for those parties.

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...