Michael David Boyle (January 19, 1944 – September 10, 2021) was an American Democratic politician from Nebraska who served as mayor of Omaha and later as a member of the Douglas County Board of Commissioners.

In October 1985, police lieutenant Tony Infantino wrote a memo titled "Mission Impossible," describing a plan to target and surveil the mayor's brother-in-law, John Howell, and attempt to arrest him on suspicion of drunken driving.

Lant held that there was both an improper plot and subsequent cover-up, and demanded that Omaha Chief of Police Robert C. Wadman discipline the involved officers.

Chief Wadman refused Lant's orders to co-sign the disciplinary notices based on his personal beliefs, despite the results of polygraph examinations of the command officers.

The Personnel Board of the City of Omaha, a panel of citizens, unanimously approved Lant's disciplinary notices and Wadman's dismissal.

The Douglas County District Court upheld the disciplinary notices, but overturned Wadman's dismissal by the Personnel Board.

[6] In 1997, Boyle was appointed to the Douglas County Board of Commissioners after Bernice Labedz resigned for health reasons, serving until his death in 2021.