Top Wall St. Whistleblower Siedle Sets His Sights on Solving Father’s Murder With New Book
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Top U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigator Edward “Ted” Siedle is known for his forensic financial investigations.
In Rhode Island, he probed former Governor Gina Raimondo’s pension reform while she was General Treasurer, furnishing the scathing report, “RI Public Pension Reform: Wall Street's License to Steal.” Siedle has claimed that Raimondo's strategy cut pensions for retirees' COLAs and paid tremendous fees to Wall Street firms.
In 2017, on an unrelated matter, Siedle scored more than $70 million in whistleblower fees.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTNow, he has a new book coming out this week on what has been his biggest examination. Since he was 17 years old, Siedle has been working to solve the murder of his father in Uganda, which took place during the reign of Dictator Idi Amin.
“Buried Beneath a Tree in Africa” is the true story of Siedle’s attempt to find answers surrounding the mystery of the deaths of his father, Robert Siedle. Also murdered was freelance journalist Nicholas Stroh. The two began to look into the atrocities committed during Amin’s coup in 1971 — the year they were killed.
Amin's rule was characterized by rampant abuses, and human rights groups estimate that between 100,000 and 500,000 people were killed under his regime, which ruled from 1971 to 1979.
Siedle, who had lived with his father growing up in Africa and around the world, traveled back to Uganda in 1997 in search of answers to learn what had happened.
All Siedle knew was that the bodies of the two men had been reportedly burned along with their car. On that trip, Siedle went with laborers and dug at a site where the men were believed to have been buried.
But their remains were not there, and they have never been found.
“I started writing the book in 1997. I had my notes — back then, I didn’t type — I wrote it out on a legal pad, and a secretary typed the book,” said Siedle.
Despite the mystery surrounding his father's death, his ties to the CIA, and the reported involvement of Israel’s Mossad, Siedle said the book back then didn’t pick up any interest from publishers.
“A literary agent said she loved it and shopped it around, but nothing,” said Siedle.
Still, solving his father’s murder remained at the forefront of his life.
“I learned more — I was contacted by CIA agents and got additional information,” said Siedle.
Reopening Investigating, Courted by Movie Studio
Armed with more details, Siedle updated the working draft of his book. Then came a pivotal development.
“I was reading 'Seven Years in Tibet.' The original book was written in 1954 — and then they added a forward by the Dalai Lami, which was all of 150 words,” said Siedle, of the book that went on to become a movie starring Brad Pitt.
So Siedle had an idea.
“I contacted the Ugandan ambassador to the U.S.,” said Siedle.
In a fortuitous turn of events, that yielded a forward to Siedle's book penned by Uganda’s current president Yoweri Musevini, vowing to reopen his father’s case.
Now, Siedle believes he might finally get answers — and the book is already getting interest from Hollywood.
“I’ve received inquiries from movie producers,” said Siedle.
"[Musevini] wrote that this book will help other Ugandans to write their stories. The whole Amin era has essentially been forgotten," said Siedle.
The book, which comes out February 1, is already the number one "new release" in espionage true accounts on Amazon.
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