In the world in which The Man From FCPA grew up there was a well-worn phrase “It’s not what the cockroach eats, it is what it spoils.” That adage was applied to college football, usually when a very small underdog school would defeat a much larger and favored opponent. Now the cockroach has a new advocate, Warren Buffet, who said on the CNBC program Squawk Alley, “What you find is there’s never just one cockroach in the kitchen when you start looking around.”

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...