A 360 Degree View of Compliance-based Resolutions

Vincent L. DiCianni founded Affiliated Monitors, Inc. (AMI) in 2004 and has served as the company President since its inception. His vision was to create a company that offered independent monitoring and compliance consulting services to assist government agencies and those who contract with, are licensed, or regulated by those agencies. Affiliated Monitors has built a team of professionals with extensive experience as attorneys, auditors, data analysts, investigators, and regulators. He has served as the lead or co-lead in a number of high-profile matters.

Christina Tusan is the founder of Tusan Law, PC, where she and her firm investigate and litigate consumer protection, privacy, product liability, and whistleblower cases on behalf of consumers. She is an award-winning consumer protection trial attorney who has investigated, prosecuted, and supervised the litigation of complex unfair competition cases in federal and state courts on behalf of the Federal Trade Commission, the California Attorney General, and the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office. Ms. Tusan has obtained judgments or negotiated settlements on consumer protection matters valued at over $1 billion. Ms. Tusan has spent the last 26 years successfully investigating and litigating Unfair Competition Law (UCL) cases, False Advertising Law (FAL) cases, and Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices (UDAP) Cases on behalf of consumers.

Ms. Tusan’s work has been recognized as exceptional by state and federal agencies, national organizations, and the California Lawyers Association. She received the SIRIS Investigation of the Year Award from the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association and the Consumer Protection and Unfair Competition Law Award from the California Lawyers Association’s Antitrust and Consumer Law Section in 2025. The California Attorney General recognized her contributions by selecting her as the recipient of an “Award for Excellence,” and the Federal Trade Commission gave her three different awards for her work while at the agency. One news article describes a prenatal vitamin case she investigated and settled as a case that “could change an industry.”

Kevin Lownds is the Deputy Chief in the Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell, Medicaid Fraud Division, where he investigates and prosecutes health care fraud in federal and state court. Kevin has been in the Medicaid Fraud Division since May 2017 and has conducted investigations and led prosecutions of mental health providers and private equity investors, clinical laboratories, nursing homes, home health agencies, and physicians. Prior to this role, Kevin was a Senior Associate at WilmerHale LLP in Washington, DC, where he practiced white-collar criminal defense and complex civil litigation. Kevin is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and Tufts University.

Professor Farhat served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Major Frauds Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California. As a federal prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted white collar crimes, including healthcare fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud, and money laundering. While in the Major Frauds Section, Professor Farhat served as the criminal healthcare fraud coordinator for the U.S. Attorney’s Office and oversaw the investigative activities of the U.S. Department of Justice Medicare Fraud Strike Force for the Central District. Before becoming a criminal prosecutor, Professor Farhat was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where he represented the United States in commercial litigation and other civil cases. Professor Farhat served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Edward Rafeedie, U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California. Before joining the law school as a clinical faculty member, he was a partner at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, where he served as chair of the firm’s White Collar Defense & Investigations Group, and before that a partner at Holland & Knight LLP. In private practice, Professor Farhat represented financial services companies, government contractors, real estate and construction companies, healthcare providers, nonprofits, and trustees and fiduciaries in government investigations, and complex, high-stakes litigation.