Whistleblowers International Attorneys

Daniel Ocasio, Senior Attorney

Daniel is exclusively devoted to representing whistleblowers in actions filed with the SEC, IRS, and CFTC.  Daniel also focuses on healthcare and pharmaceutical fraud investigations.  Before joining WBI, Daniel served as a special prosecutor for government corruption under the Investigations and Administrative Processing Division for the Office of Government Ethics of Puerto Rico. For five years he has been involved in corporate consulting, administrative procedures, employment law and civil litigation including several high-profile corruption cases.

Kirk E. Chapman, Of Counsel

Kirk Chapman practices primarily in the False Claims Act arena representing whistleblowers. As part of his False Claims Act practice, Kirk has represented whistleblowers in cases generating some of the largest recoveries under the Federal False Claims Act. These cases include a global settlement against Bristol Meyers Squibb (which resulted in a $515 million recovery for the Medicare and Medicaid programs) and Mason v. Medline (which resulted in an $85 million recovery for the United States and one of the largest settlements in a non­intervened case to date).

Kirk has over 20 years of experience litigating class and complex matters in a wide range of practice areas. He began his career focusing on securities fraud and employment discrimination class actions. During this time, Mr. Chapman was one of the principal attorneys handling In re Tyco International, Ltd. Securities Litigation, which recovered over $3.2 billion for the company’s injured shareholders­­.

Edward “Ted” Siedle, Of Counsel

In 2017, Ted secured the largest SEC whistleblower award in history– $48 million– related to a $307 million JP Morgan Chase settlement that charged the bank with failing to disclose certain conflicts of interest to some of its wealth management clients. In 2016, he obtained the first whistleblower award in the history of the State of Indiana on behalf of a client.

Ted knows what it’s like to be a whistleblower because he was a successful whistleblower himself. Early in his legal career, after leaving the SEC’s Division of Investment Management and becoming Director of Compliance-Legal Counsel of a major mutual fund complex, he was the original mutual fund whistleblower in 1988.

Ted is also the nation’s leading expert in forensic investigations of money managers and pensions, focusing upon excessive and hidden investment fees and risks, conflicts of interest and wrongdoing. He has investigated well-over $1 trillion in retirement plans. Prior investigations include the state of Rhode Island, state of North Carolina, the Alabama State Employees Pension, Wal-Mart, Cities of Nashville, Chattanooga and Jacksonville, Towns of Jupiter and Longboat Key, Caterpillar, Boeing, Northrup Grumman, John Deere, Bechtel, ABB, Edison, Shelby County, Tennessee, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan, Sanford Bernstein, Banco Santander, US Airways Pilots Pension and New York State Teamsters Pension.

Myriam Cruz, Associate

Myriam’s practice emphasizes on Home Care and Hospice fraud in addition to collaborating in respiratory health fraud and kickback statutes cases. During her time at Whistleblowers International, she has also devoted herself to medical device mass tort cases, working with individuals who have suffered the side effects of companies that have manufactured faulty devices as a result of fraudulent practices.

Ansel Cancel, Investigator

As an investigator with Whistleblowers International, Ansel concentrates in anti-kickback statute cases and tax frauds.

Alexander Dávila, Investigator

As an investigator with our law firm, Alexander focuses on a wide variety of federal false claims including financial, mortgage and general healthcare fraud.