A senior US military scientist working on advanced propulsion technologies allegedly tricked a contractor into hiring an unqualified sex worker — who then went on to service other scientists at the Air Force base. Dr. James Gord, a highly decorated civilian Air Force employee who died last September due to unspecified causes, had allegedly paid the 32-year-old sex worker $400 an hour for her services using a government charge card, according to a recently unsealed search warrant application obtained by the Daily Beast. According to federal investigators, Gord convinced Sukesh Roy, chief executive of Spectral Energies, a contractor based at...