Leonard Boyle

Leonard Boyle has worked in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut for approximately 17 years.  He is currently the Assistant District Attorney for Connecticut and Counsel to the United States Attorney for Connecticut. 

In these roles he has investigated and prosecuted violations of federal criminal laws, including public corruption, civil rights, corporate fraud, violent crimes and narcotics trafficking.  He also supervises the Corporate Fraud Unit and provides advice and counsel to the U.S. Attorney regarding administrative, personnel and operational matters.

Boyle has also been serving as a Special Attorney to the Attorney General of the United States.  In this role, he has investigated and prosecuted current and former law enforcement officials who had corrupt relationships with criminal figures in Boston, Mass. This investigation led to the successful prosecution of former FBI agent John J. Connolly, Jr.  

Boyle started with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in 1986.  He was appointed supervisor of the Hartford Branch Office in 1992 and Chief of the Criminal Division in 1994.  Heading this division, he supervised approximately 30 federal prosecutors and all criminal prosecutions in the state.

Boyle left the U.S. Attorney’s Office for 15 months in 1998 to work as a partner in the Hartford law firm of Murtha, Cullina, Richter and Pinney.  He resumed his career as a federal prosecutor in 1999. 

Boyle was raised in Vernon and graduated from Rockville High School.  He lives in East Hartford where he served as a police officer from 1975 to 1980.  He graduated from the University of Hartford in 1980 and earned a law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1983.  After law school, Boyle clerked for then-Chief Justice John A. Speziale of the Connecticut Supreme Court and served as an associate at the law firm of Tyler, Cooper and Alcorn, New Haven.

Since 1994, Boyle has served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and as an Instructor at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Education and National Advocacy Center.

Boyle recently received the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service for his work in the Connolly case.  He has received the U.S. Department of Justice’s Director’s Award on two occasions: in 2001, for his prosecution of civil rights cases involving members of the Hartford Police Department, and in 2002, for his racketeering prosecution of organized crime figures.

In 1990, he received the U.S. Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award for his prosecution of United States v. Gerena, et al.