Daniel is an investigative journalist, tv producer, and writer with 20 years of experience covering a wide variety of topics across multiple platforms. Usually, he writes about financial crime. Over the years, he has interviewed senior-level politicians, corporate leaders, law enforcement officials, crime victims, perpetrators, informants, and a handful of nuns. Daniel is adept at digging through boxes of documents to find a story and bring it to life.
From 2010-2023, Daniel was a senior producer at Kurtis Productions, a Chicago-based production company that is an industry leader in the creation of true-crime documentaries. There, he wrote and produced episodes of CNBC’s long-running financial crime documentary series, American Greed.
Before working on American Greed, Daniel was a supervising producer at Current TV, Al Gore’s Emmy award-winning cable network, where he helped launch a show called infoMania with one of the creator’s of The Daily Show.
With a background in investigative reporting, Daniel has researched and written pitches for numerous nonfiction series, including This Giant Beast That is the Global Economy, a financial docu-series by Adam McKay for Amazon Prime that was produced by the Intellectual Property Corporation and Gary Sanchez Productions.
Daniel is also the co-author of Call Me Commander, a non-fiction book about a former intelligence officer who perpetrated a multimillion-dollar charity fraud while he was being sought by the FBI for questioning in an espionage investigation.
