How an Unqualified Sex Worker Allegedly Infiltrated a Top Air Force Lab

[Nevilledog]

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A senior research scientist working on advanced propulsion technologies for the U.S. Air Force duped a contractor into hiring an unqualified sex worker he had paid using a government charge card because he thought she was “really hot,” according to the feds.

The man then allegedly threatened to kill the sex worker’s supervisor and himself when the scheme fell apart—but not before shifting the bulk of the project’s funding elsewhere to pay for her salary at a different defense firm.

That’s according to a newly unsealed search warrant application obtained by The Daily Beast, which accuses Dr. James Gord, a highly decorated civilian Air Force employee, of installing the 32-year-old sex worker on a highly technical research project even though she did not have a college degree or any expertise in the field.

The woman “did not fully understand how to use basic word processing…software,” and “struggled to formulate coherent interoffice emails,” the warrant states. 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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[Faux pas]

1. ...

I bet he's a tfg kinda guy

[Tomconroy]

2. How can you be an unqualified sex worker?

Is there a certification you need to get?

[YDogg]

3. We think alike.

[dchill]

7. Sublime snark. 😜

[Historic NY]

11. Auditions,

[Brainfodder]

14. Not to confuse, but unqualified for the job placed in, not for the sex working....

[CentralMass]

17. My thoughts exactly.

[Sneederbunk]

18. I hear she was a quick study.

[Ziggysmom]

4. Holy crap what a story! I feel sorry for his widow now that he's dead and she cannot kick

his butt to the curb..... or worse.

[AndyS]

5. I don't know if it's wisdom or just old age but

p***y just can't do that to me anymore. The other brain kicks in . . .

[Victor_c3]

24. I'm not sure if it's old age or a lifetime of having had a decent sex life

I’m 42, not really old but I’m definitely a middle-aged white guy.

At this point in my life I’ve been with enough women that I really don’t get distracted by beauty in the same way I used to when I was a kid in my teens and twenties. The same goes with nudity. I’ve seen enough naked people that I really don’t get worked up about it all that much anymore.

[rubbersole]

6. Sex workers were "movin' on up" in 2019...

One made it all the way to FLOTUS. Allegedly.

[Coventina]

8. Wolowitz?

Sorry....couldn't resist......



On edit: I misspelled his name.....

[Nevilledog]

10. ...

v

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. Ohio is an "employment at will" state, but the lawyer advised waiting until her 1 year review?

Wow. I mean, she lied through her teeth to get the job, was engaged in a dodgy sex relationship with her boss, and was useless at the job. And I can't tell if the CEO knew other Research Lab scientists were paying her for sex too at that point. But a lawyer thought they needed to wait for a review before kicking her out. Presumably Gord was so good at his job that Roy hesitated at firing him at once too.

[dalton99a]

12. Damn.

The woman “did not fully understand how to use basic word processing…software,” and “struggled to formulate coherent interoffice emails,” the warrant states. In 2019, Gord tapped the woman to co-chair a scientific panel for unsuspecting photonics researchers designing turbine engines, detonation engines, scramjets, and rockets.

“Over her first few months on the job, Roy stated [she] was not timely with her [expenses], did not fully understand how to use basic word processing and document creation software, and struggled to formulate coherent interoffice emails,” the warrant goes on. “[She] also failed to provide her college transcripts as requested.”

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 around the country he saw while on official trips for the Air Force. He didn’t want his wife or kids to know about his “relationships with these women,” and took out cash advances against his government travel card “so that the family finances were not visibly affected,” the warrant states.

Yet, Gord, who allegedly told Roy he paid the woman $400 an hour for her services, claimed to be in love with her and said she felt the same about him. Still, the woman “engaged in acts of prostitution” around Wright-Patterson with other scientists from the Air Force Research Laboratory, the warrant says. One, identified in the filing only as “Dr. I.K.,” 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.

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DR. JAMES R. GORD, Principal Research Chemist with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate, leads the development and application of optical measurement techniques for advanced propulsion and fuel systems as Director of the Combustion and Laser Diagnostics Research Complex. His work has produced five patents, four book chapters, more than 160 peer-reviewed journal articles, and more than 810 conference papers and presentations, including more than 190 delivered upon invitation. Dr. Gord studied at Miami University as a National Merit and Ohio Board of Regents Scholar, receiving a B.S. in chemistry with University and Departmental Honors in 1986. He performed his doctoral research at Purdue University with Prof. Ben S. Freiser through fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the American Chemical Society, receiving a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry with Highest Honors in 1990. Thereafter he pursued postdoctoral studies in chemical physics at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) with Prof. W. Carl Lineberger. Dr. Gord joined the Air Force research team in 1991. In 2007 he was named a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. In 2005 he received AFRL’s top honor when he was named an AFRL Fellow. Dr. Gord is a two-time winner of AFRL’s Award for Outstanding Scientific and Technical Achievement (2004, 2001) and was named one of Dayton’s 40 Superachievers Under 40 in 2004. He is also a three-time winner of the Propulsion Directorate’s S. D. Heron Award (2010, 2005, 1999) for outstanding technical achievement and a two-time winner of the Air Force Exemplary Civilian Service Award. In 2001 he was named the Propulsion Directorate’s Scientist of the Year. Dr. Gord has been named a Distinguished Alumnus of Purdue University, Miami University, and Miami East High School. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Associate Fellow), the American Institute of Physics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Combustion Institute, the Optical Society of America (Fellow), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and the Society for Applied Spectroscopy.

[Brenda]

23. "she felt the same about him"

Uh huh. The fucking Pentagon has been wasting millions of dollars on hookers for decades. When the hell will it stop?

[PCIntern]

13. This thread is useless without pictures.

[hatrack]

15. How did he not end up as Trump's defense attache?

He would have fit right in . . . .

[edbermac]

16. An unqualified sex worker?

Does that mean they flunked the oral exam?

[duckworth969]

19. tales of the really, really weird

[KelleyKramer]

20. How bad do you have to be at sex to be an unqualified sex worker?

Does that mean 3 out of 4 ask for their money back after the sex?

Or maybe 3 out of 5?

[greenjar_01]

26. Hahaha

It's possible.

[iemanja]

21. Obviously the scientist was the problem

Not the sex worker.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

22. Need to see a graph of production from 1 year before hiring until the warrant.

Just because she couldn't do word processing and emails, doesn't mean she was a drag on the research.

[greenjar_01]

25. Preferably would have had a qualified sex worker infiltrating the lab

Heyoooo!