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Nathaniel R. Mendell
Acting U.S. Attorney
Nathaniel R. Mendell became Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts on March 1, 2021
Nathaniel R. Mendell served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney to Andrew Lelling prior to his appointment as Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. As First Assistant, Mr. Mendell was charged with advising the U.S. Attorney, running the attorney hiring process and managing the day-to-day operations of the office.
Before serving as First Assistant, Mr. Mendell was Chief of the Narcotics and Money Laundering Unit. He led a team of 15 prosecutors and numerous administrative staff in the investigations and prosecutions of drug traffickers and money launderers operating in the United States, Colombia, Europe and the Middle East. He also contributed to the creation of the District Court’s RISE Program.
Prior to joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, Mr. Mendell worked as a federal prosecutor in Miami for several years. As an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston and Miami, Mr. Mendell prosecuted drug traffickers and money launders, fraudsters, armed carjackers and human traffickers. He has handled more than a dozen jury trials.
Before joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Mendell was a litigation associate at Ropes Gray LLC.
Mr. Mendell is a graduate of Amherst College and Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor in Chief of the Harvard Latino Law Review.
Leonard C Boyle
Leonard C Boyle was appointed as the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut on March 1, 2021. Mr. Boyle had 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.
Mr. Boyle previously served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1986 to 1998, the last four years of which he was Chief of the Criminal Division. After a short time in private practice, Mr. Boyle returned to government service in April 1999 as a Special Attorney to the U.S. Attorney General and investigated and prosecuted corrupt relationships between law enforcement personnel and organized crime figures in the Boston area. From January 2003 to August 2004, Mr. Boyle served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney, and also supervised the Office’s Corporate Fraud Unit.
In addition to Mr. Boyle’s career as a federal and state prosecutor, his law enforcement and management experience includes service as the Director of the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center in Washington, D.C., from March 2007 to February 2009, and as Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Public Safety from August 2004 to March 2007.
Mr. Boyle graduated from the University of Hartford in 1980, and from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1983.
From 1975 to 1980, Mr. Boyle was a police officer for the Town of East Hartford.
Mr. Boyle is the 53rd U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, an office that was established in 1789.
Randolph J. Bernard was named the Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia, effective March 1, 2021. Mr. Bernard previously served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and the Chief of the Criminal Division.
Mr. Bernard joined the office in 2002, and has experience prosecuting a wide range of criminal cases, including drugs and violent crimes, firearms, white collar offenses, fraud and tax cases, and child pornography cases.
Mr. Bernard has also served as the District Office Security Manager.
Before becoming an Assistant United States Attorney, Mr. Bernard served as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Wheeling, West Virginia Resident Agency. Prior to the FBI, he was a litigation attorney in private practice with Coolidge, Wall, Womsley & Lombard in Dayton, Ohio.
Mr. Bernard is a 1987 magna cum laude graduate of Ohio Northern University College of Law and a 1984 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Stephen R. Kaufman is the Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In this position, Mr. Kaufman leads of staff of nearly 130 employees representing the United States in courts throughout Pennsylvania's western 25 counties, including staffed offices in Pittsburgh, Erie and Johnstown.
Mr. Kaufman's career in the Department of Justice has spanned four decades. Most recently he served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney beginning in April 2018. Prior to that appointment, Mr. Kaufman held a series of leadership positions in the U.S. Attorney's Office, including serving as the Chief of the Criminal Division from 2010 to 2018. Mr. Kaufman joined the U. S. Attorney's Office in 1988. In his career as a federal prosecutor, Mr. Kaufman has handled a wide variety of violent crime, narcotics, child exploitation and white collar cases. Notable cases include the successful eight-week trial of the Pittsburgh La Cosa Nostra organized crime family on RICO charges, the prosecution of the distributors of China White, a deadly synthetic form of heroin which caused the overdose deaths of 17 individuals in 1988, the prosecution of the perpetrator of a $31 million dollar check kiting scheme against PNC Bank, and obtained the conviction of a physician who was the most prolific illegal distributor of oxycodone in the Pittsburgh area prior to his arrest.
After graduating summa cum laude from Allegheny College in 1981, Mr. Kaufman attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated cum laude in 1984. He joined the United States Attorney's Office after working as a law clerk for United States District Judge Donald E. Ziegler. He also engaged in the private practice of law with former United States Attorney Frederick W. Thieman at the law firms of Titus & McConomy and Thieman & Kaufman. Mr. Kaufman has been a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law since 1997, where he has taught courses in White Collar Crime, Criminal Procedure and Trial Advocacy.
Rachael A. Honig is the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. She serves in that capacity under the Vacancies Reform Act, as the Office’s First Assistant U.S. Attorney. As Acting U.S. Attorney, she is responsible for overseeing all federal criminal prosecutions and the litigation of all civil matters in New Jersey in which the federal government has an interest. Between the offices in Newark, Camden, and Trenton, Ms. Honig supervises a staff of approximately 170 federal prosecutors, and approximately 130 support personnel.
She rejoined the U.S. Attorney’s Office as the First Assistant in March 2018 after working as a litigation and compliance investigations counsel at a healthcare company. Prior that, Ms. Honig was employed at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for just under fourteen years, serving as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney from 2013 to 2016; Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division from 2010 to 2013; and an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal and Special Prosecutions Divisions from 2003 to 2010. From 2000 to 2003, Ms. Honig was a litigation associate at a law firm in Washington, D.C. From 1999 to 2000, she was a judicial law clerk to the Hon. Mary M. Schroeder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Ms. Honig received her law degree with High Honors from The University of Chicago Law School in 1999, where she served as a member and a Comment Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review. She received a B.A. in English Language & Literature with General and Departmental Honors from The University of Chicago in 1995.
G. Norman Acker, III became the Acting U.S. Attorney on February 28, 2021, upon the resignation of the prior U.S. Attorney, Robert J. Higdon, Jr.
As Acting U.S. Attorney, Mr. Acker is the chief federal law enforcement officer in the Eastern District of North Carolina, which includes the 44 eastern-most counties of North Carolina. He oversees a staff of 125 employees, including 58 attorneys and 67 non-attorney support personnel. The office also partners with approximately 44 Special Assistant United States Attorneys from branches of the United States military, local District Attorneys’ offices and federal and state regulatory agencies. Each of these Special Assistants also works in federal court under the United States Attorney’s supervision.
The office is responsible for prosecuting federal crimes affecting the district, including crimes related to terrorism, public corruption, child exploitation, firearms, and narcotics. The office also defends the United States in civil cases and collects debts owed to the United States.
Prior to becoming Acting U.S. Attorney, Mr. Acker served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for more than thirty years. During his tenure he has litigated numerous civil and criminal cases in United States District Court as well as in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was the Deputy Civil Chief and the Civil Chief for a total of 18 years, and between 2018 and 2021, he served as the First Assistant United States Attorney, supervising the work of the Civil, Criminal and Appellate Divisions.
While working as an AUSA, Mr. Acker’s primary focus of litigation was pursuing individuals and corporations who committed fraud against the United States. He was the Affirmative Civil Enforcement Coordinator and the Health Care Fraud Coordinator for the office. He handled “white collar” cases involving contract fraud against the military, health care fraud against the Medicare and Medicaid programs, as well as many other types of fraud against the government. He was responsible for collecting approximately $100 million from perpetrators of fraud against the government.
Mr. Acker was born and raised in Raleigh and is a lifelong resident of the Research Triangle area. He received both his undergraduate degree and his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has been married for more than 37 years and has three grown children and four grandchildren.
Jonathan Lenzner is the Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. As the chief federal law enforcement official in the District of Maryland, Lenzner oversees the investigation and litigation of all criminal and civil cases brought in the District on behalf of the United States. He supervises an office of nearly 100 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and approximately 75 support personnel, who handle a high volume of matters including domestic and international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, organized crime, gang violence, public corruption, cybercrime, financial and healthcare fraud, and civil rights violations.
Prior to assuming the position of Acting United States Attorney, Lenzner served as the First Assistant U.S. Attorney in Maryland for two and a half years. In that role, he oversaw the daily operations of the criminal, civil and administrative divisions of the Office and served as the chief deputy to the U.S. Attorney. He also helped create and implement new initiatives to ensure the Office was maximizing its resources and effectiveness, including the creation of an in-house unit of investigative analysts and a system of strategic planning.
Lenzner served as an assistant U.S. Attorney in the District of Maryland from 2010 to 2013, prosecuting public corruption, financial crimes, narcotics trafficking, sex and labor trafficking, and cases involving illegal firearms and violent gangs.
From 2004 to 2010, Lenzner served as an assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorney’s Office, where he served in the Trial Division, Sex Crimes Unit and the Major Economic Crimes Division.
In between his service with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Lenzner served as the CEO of a global risk advisory, corporate investigations and crisis management firm based in Washington, D.C.
Lenzner is a member of the board of overseers of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he also teaches trial advocacy.
He graduated from Trinity College (B.A.) in 1996 and from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (J.D.) in 2004.
John J. Farley became Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire on March 7, 2021. He has served as First Assistant U.S. Attorney since 2016.
Acting U.S. Attorney Farley has been with the U.S. Department of Justice for over 25 years. After clerking for a federal district judge, he joined the Department through the Honors Program in 1995. He worked for the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section and prosecuted drug cases in multiple locations, including Texas, California, and Puerto Rico. He then worked as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Boston from 1998 to 2004, where he prosecuted drug and public corruption cases.
In 2004, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Hampshire. From 2004 to 2012, he worked in the Civil Division handling Affirmative Civil Enforcement matters, including civil health care fraud and civil rights matters. He then moved to the Criminal Division, where he served as the Lead Task Force Attorney for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force and prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases. He also served as Acting U.S. Attorney from March of 2017 to March of 2018.
Acting U.S. Attorney Farley has a B.A. in Government and International Studies from the University of Notre Dame. He obtained his law degree at the Georgetown University Law Center.