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A married senior US Air Force scientist accused of tricking a colleague into hiring a 'really hot' prostitute to join their top military research team, killed himself when he realized he was about to be exposed.
James Gord, 57, hanged himself with a braided nylon rope in the garage of his home in Beavercreek, Ohio, according to an autopsy report obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com.
Gord's death on September 10 last year came as investigators were closing in on him for persuading colleague Sukesh Roy to hire $400-an-hour sex worker Amanda Savino to a highly sensitive position, even though she could barely use a computer.
Gord worked in the hypersonics directorate in the Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. At the time Roy was a contractor whose company Spectral Energies provided laser imaging of turbine engines for the lab.
The two men had known each other for 17 years and had become close friends, FBI agent Jacqueline Horton wrote in an affidavit to support the search warrant request. Gord had awarded millions of dollars in annual grants to Roy's company for his work.
Dr. James Gord was accused of tricking a supervisor into hiring sex worker Amanda Savino, 32, onto a team tasked with developing hypersonic jet engines
DailyMail.com can reveal that Gord, 57, hanged himself in the garage of his home in Beavercreek, Ohio, on September 10, 2021
Roy would not come to the door of his house in Dayton. His wife said he was napping and would not comment anyway.
Attempts to contact Savino were unsuccessful.
The sleazy details of Gord's case were unsealed by a federal court in Ohio last month after the file was closed.
A search warrant, released by the court showed the FBI wanted to comb through Google and Yahoo computers to find proof of his scheme.
Spectral Energies CEO Sukesh Roy hired Savino after Gord spoke on her behalf and provided a false story about her background
But Gord's suicide put an end to the case before he could be prosecuted.
In 2017, Gord told Roy that he had met Savino, 32, on a plane and 'was very impressed with how she presented herself,' Horton wrote.
He claimed they were sitting next to each other on a flight from Dallas to Dayton when Savino noticed the work he was doing on his laptop and they struck up a conversation because she had an interest in the subject.
The truth was that they had met when he hired her at $400-an-hour through a Cincinnati escort service called Discreet Desires.
'Gord highly encouraged Roy to hire Savino, speaking favorably of Savino's technical expertise,' Horton wrote.
'He then finished by stating ''she's also really hot.'''
But Roy soon found that Savino wasn't up to the job, Horton added.
'Roy quickly grew frustrated with Savino's lack of capability in the position.
'(She) did not fully understand how to use basic word processing and document creation software and struggled to formulate coherent interoffice emails.'
And when she couldn't provide her college transcripts – supposedly for an art degree from the University of Florida, a biochemistry degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and from time studying for a medical degree at the University of Cincinnati Medical School – he confronted Gord, who was
