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U.S. Attorney Durham Announces Departure from Office





Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
District of Connecticut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, February 26, 2021





After serving as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut for more than
three years, and as a federal prosecutor in Connecticut for more than 38 years, John H. Durham
today announced his resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, effective at midnight on February 28.

“My career has been as fulfilling as I could ever have imagined when I graduated from law
school way back in 1975,” said U.S. Attorney Durham.  “Much of that fulfillment has come from
all the people with whom I’ve been blessed to share this workplace, and in our partner law
enforcement agencies.  My love and respect for this Office and the vitally important work done
here have never diminished.  It has been a tremendous honor to serve as U.S. Attorney, and
as a career prosecutor before that, and I will sorely miss it.”

Prior to his appointment as an interim U.S. Attorney in November 2017 and subsequently as
the presidentially appointed U.S. Attorney in February 2018, Mr. Durham served as an
Assistant U.S. Attorney in various positions in the District of Connecticut for 35 years, prosecuting
complex organized crime, violent crime, public corruption and financial fraud matters. 
From 1978 to 1982, he served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the New Haven State’s Attorney’s
Office, and from 1977 to 1978, he served as a Deputy Assistant State’s Attorney in the
Office of the Chief State’s Attorney.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Leonard C Boyle will serve as Acting U.S. Attorney upon
Mr. Durham’s departure.

“The Office will be in the extraordinarily capable hands of Len and our superb supervisory
team who, together, guarantee that the proper administration of justice will continue
uninterrupted in our District.”

Mr. Boyle has served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney since June 2018, when he returned
to the U.S. Attorney’s Office after serving as Deputy Chief State’s Attorney in Connecticut
for approximately nine years.  He previously served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office from
1986 to 1998, and from 1999 to 2004.

Mr. Boyle is the 53rd U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, an office that was
established in 1789.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office is charged with enforcing federal criminal laws in Connecticut
and representing the federal government in civil litigation.  The Office is composed of
approximately 68 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and approximately 54 staff members at offices
in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport.