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Who was Dr James Gord? Military scientist duped colleague into hiring sex worker at Air Force lab

When the scheme fell apart, senior research scientist Dr James Gord threatened to kill the woman’s supervisor and himself, according to a search warrant
PUBLISHED JUL 20, 2022
Dr James Gord (L) died in September 2021 due to unspecified causes (Credit: Wright Patterson US Air Base and GoogleMaps)
Dr James Gord (L) died in September 2021 due to unspecified causes (Credit: Wright Patterson US Air Base and GoogleMaps)

A senior US Air Force hypersonic missile scientist, Dr James Gord, duped his colleague into hiring a 32-year-old sex worker at a top military research team so that he could continue paying for her services without his wife's knowledge, a search warrant revealed. The woman was integrated into a team tasked with developing hypersonic jet engines and rockets at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, in 2017

The newly unsealed search warrant application obtained by The Daily Beast accuses Gord of placing the unqualified sex worker on a highly technical research project because he thought she was “really hot.” According to the warrant, the woman did not fully understand how to use basic word processing…software,” and “struggled to formulate coherent interoffice emails.” In 2019, Gord tapped the woman to co-chair a scientific panel for unsuspecting photonics researchers designing turbine engines, detonation engines, scramjets, and rockets.

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No charges had been filed against Gord prior to his death last September, due to unspecified causes. The woman has not been charged with a crime either. 

According to the Daily Beast, Gord first came to the attention of Air Force investigators in March 2019, after the CEO and chief research scientist of a company that provided the Air Force Research Lab in Ohio with laser imaging for turbine engines reached out with a raft of highly troubling allegations.

The company, Spectral Energies, has received millions of dollars in government contracts and had been contracting for the lab, located on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, for the past 17 years, the warrant states. Spectral Energies CEO Sukesh Roy and Gord, who oversaw the technology Roy’s company supported and was responsible for doling out the contract’s funding, had become good friends during that period, according to the warrant.

Dr. James Gord was accused of tricking a supervisor into hiring sex worker (Credit: Wright Patterson US Air Base)
Dr James Gord was accused of tricking a supervisor into hiring a sex worker (Credit: Wright Patterson US Air Base)

However, Roy became concerned about Gord's actions and contacted the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI), alleging that Gord “was engaging in unethical government contract negotiations, had communicated threats of violence, and was regularly soliciting prostitution while on the installation and while traveling on official US Air Force business,” the warrant states.

In October 2017, Roy shared with Gord he was looking to hire an administrative technician at Spectral Energies. “Gord recently met a young professional while on a flight to Washington, DC…. and was very impressed with how she presented herself,” the warrant reads. Thereafter, Gord told Roy he thought she would be “a good fit” at Spectral, and gave Roy a copy of her resume, the warrant says. It said she was a certified EMT and firefighter with a biochemistry degree from the University of Tennessee and had attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati.

“Gord highly encouraged Roy to hire [her], speaking highly of [her] technical expertise,” the warrant explains. "He then finished by stating, ‘She’s also really hot,’” the warrant further stated. 

Roy hired her the following month, on Gord’s recommendation.

Spectral Energies CEO Sukesh Roy hired Savino after Gord spoke on her behalf and provided a false story about her background (Credit: The Combustion Institute/Twitter)
Spectral Energies CEO Sukesh Roy hired the woman after Gord spoke on her behalf and provided a false story about her background (Credit: The Combustion Institute/Twitter)

Roy “quickly became frustrated with [her] lack of capability in the position,” according to the warrant. Roy then confronted Gord, who came clean and disclosed that she was “a prostitute he met in Cincinnati,” according to the warrant. Gord allegedly told Roy that he kept an Excel spreadsheet on his government-issued laptop with the names and details of various sex workers he saw while on official Air Force trips around the country. He didn't want his wife or children to know about his "relationships with these women," so he used his government travel card to get cash advances "so that the family finances were not visibly affected," according to the warrant.

One, identified in the filing only as “Dr IK,” paid the woman “approximately $20K a year to clean his residence in the nude and then perform oral sex on him,” according to the warrant. Gord allegedly urged Roy to more deeply involve her in the technical research Spectral Energies was performing under the contract Gord oversaw.

Spectral Energies has been employed as an Air Force contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for over 17 years (412th Test Wing Public Affairs)
Spectral Energies has been employed as an Air Force contractor at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for over 17 years (412th Test Wing Public Affairs)

Roy told Gord that his relationship with her was unethical and asked him to “cease all contact” with her, the warrant says. Concerned about what was going on, Roy met with a lawyer to discuss firing her but was advised to wait until her one-year review to limit any potential liability, according to the warrant. But Gord discovered the truth and confronted Roy, allegedly telling him that if anyone discovered the "true nature of his relationship" with the woman, he would know Roy was to blame. The warrant states that "Gord then stated he would come to him with one of his many guns to end it all."

In October 2018, two weeks before Roy was set to fire her, the woman told Roy she was resigning to take a job at Spectral Energies’ main competitor, Innovative Scientific Solutions Incorporated (ISSI), the warrant says. Gord ultimately transferred the prostitute to another military contractor and $150,000 in funding to pay for her salary.

A pair of AFOSI special agents attempted to confirm the woman's backstory in 2019. According to the warrant, none of the schools on her resume had any record of her. An AFOSI team armed with a search warrant raided Gord's Air Force Research Laboratory office a week later, seizing electronic devices as well as a box of Trojan condoms, a pair of women's underwear, and an empty bottle of Viagra. According to the warrant, a search of Gord's government email account turned up correspondence between him and the woman.

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AFOSI agents say they conducted a forensic review of Gord's cellphone in August 2019, discovering texts between Gord and 27 sex workers in various US cities. The warrant, which was unsealed Monday, July 18, in US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, seeks access to Gord and the woman's email accounts for evidence of false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims, embezzlement/misuse of government property, extortion of United States officers or employees, ethnic intimidation, and aggravated menacing.

According to the warrant, the woman was being investigated for prostitution near military and naval establishments, as well as false, fictitious, or fraudulent claims.

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