What did the Chancellor know and when did she know it? I thought about a rift on the famous Howard Baker question from the Watergate hearings, “What did the President know and when did he know it?” when I read a report that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is scheduled to be questioned by a German parliamentary investigation into the Volkswagen emissions-testing scandal and her lobbying efforts put to then-California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010.

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...