Exhibit H

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FBI - CIRG/NCAVC/BAU-3

1 Range Road

Quantico, Virginia 22135

(703) 632-4193

jehardie@fbi.gov

Supervisory Special Agent James E. Hardie

Current Position I am a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau Investigation (FBI), 

Critical Incident Response Group, National Center for the Analysis of Violent 

Crime, Behavioral Analysis Unit - 3, responsible for providing operational 

support to local, state, federal, and international law enforcement investigating 

crimes against children matters. These matters include abductions, homicides, 

physical/sexual abuse, sex trafficking, enticement, child pornography, and online sexual exploitation of children. I also provide training to local, state, federal, 

and international law enforcement partners regarding behavioral aspects of 

offenders and victims involved in crimes perpetrated on children.

Investigative

Background

I have been a Special Agent since 2001. As a Special Agent, I have extensive 

experience investigating sex trafficking. I have also investigated a myriad of 

violent crimes to include: crimes against children matters, bank robberies, 

kidnappings, murder-for-hire, extortion, homicides and Indian Country matters. 

From 2015 - 2017, I served as a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal 

Bureau Investigation (FBI), Cleveland Field Office, Toledo Resident Agency, 

assigned as the supervisor of a criminal investigative squad that is responsible 

for matters related crimes against children, violent crimes, gangs, and drugs. 

As part of my duties, I oversaw Toledo’s Child Exploitation Task Force, known 

as the Northwest Ohio Violent Crimes Against Children Task Force 

(NWOVCACTF). NWOVCACTF investigates crimes against children matters to 

include child sex trafficking under the FBI’s Innocence Lost National Initiative 

(ILNI). This initiative is a partnership between the FBI, Department of Justice, 

Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the National Center for Missing 

and Exploited Children (NCMEC). The mission of the ILNI is to address child 

sex trafficking, but as a result, ILNI task forces/working groups investigate all 

types of sex trafficking. 

From 2013 - 2015, I served as the FBI’s Detailee to NCMEC, located in 

Alexandria, Virginia. In this position, I served as the FBI’s liaison at NCMEC, 

specializing in matters related to the sex trafficking of juveniles. I oversaw the 

exchange of sex trafficking related reporting received by NCMEC to the FBI’s 71 

Child Exploitation Task Forces, which conduct sex trafficking investigations 

under the FBI’s ILNI. I was also responsible for providing the field investigative 

assistance/expertise in these matters. 

From 2008 - 2013, I served as the Coordinator of FBI, Cleveland, Toledo RA’s 

NWOVCACTF. I have conducted numerous interviews of individuals involved in 

prostitution to include juveniles and adults as well as pimps involved in the 

victimization of juvenile and adult victims. In addition to knowledge I have 

gained through the activities of NWOVCACTF, I regularly communicated with 

personnel from other ILNI task forces and am familiar with sex trafficking issues 

and trends outside of my territory as a result of this liaison.

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FBI Assignments Critical Incident Response Group, 2017 to Present

Behavioral Analysis Unit - 3

Cleveland Field Office, Toledo RA 2015 to 2017

Headquarters, Violent Crimes Against 2013 to 2015 

Children Section 

Cleveland Field Office, Toledo RA 2007 to 2013 

San Diego Field Office 2001 to 2007 

Collateral Duties Adjunct Faculty, Training Division 2014 to Present

Child Abduction Rapid Deployment 2015 to 2017

Team Member

National Center for Violent Crime, 2008 to 2017

Field Coordinator (Cleveland)

Evidence Response Team Member 2002 to 2015

(San Diego and Cleveland)

Previous Sex 

Trafficking Expert 

Testimony

2018 United States v. Biancofiori, Northern District of Illinois

2017 United States v. Daewon Warren, District of South Carolina

2017 United States v. Damon Jackson, District of South Carolina

2016 State v. Trevonta Matthews, Columbia, South Carolina

2015 United States v. Edward Thomas, District of Connecticut

2014 United States v. Percy Love III, Eastern District of California

2014 United States v. Christopher T. Bryant, Western District of Michigan

2014 United States v. Eddie Allen Jackson, Western District of Michigan

2012 State v. Kevin J. Donaldson, Bowling Green, Ohio

2011 United States v. Anthony Willoughby, Northern District of Ohio

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Significant 

Activities in Area 

of Expertise

I have provided numerous presentations and training to law enforcement, 

government officials, social service professionals, health care professionals, as 

well as the general public to include:

I have presented at the International Human Trafficking, Prostitution, and Sex 

Work Conference, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, in 2010, 2012, and 2016. 

I have presented at the Ohio Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Conference, 

Columbus, Ohio, in 2010, and 2012. 

I have presented at the Mid-States Organized Crime Conference in St. Charles 

Missouri, in 2015.

I have presented at the Dallas Crimes Against Children Conference in Dallas, 

Texas, in 2014.

I have presented at the Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Case Coordination 

Seminar in Denver, Colorado, in 2014.

I have presented at the National Symposium on Child Abuse in Huntsville, 

Alabama, in 2014.

I have taught topics pertaining to sex trafficking matters at NCMEC’s Protecting 

Child Victims of Prostitution course, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2012. I also taught 

topics related to sex trafficking at NCMEC’s Child Sex Trafficking: Awareness 

and Response courses in Stanford, California, 2014; Palm Beach, Florida, 

2014; and Austin, Texas, 2015. 

I developed and taught an Advanced Sex Trafficking Investigations course for 

the Ohio Peace Officer’s Training Academy, in 2011, and 2012 

At the request of the Department of Justice, International Criminal Investigative 

Training Assistance Program, and the United States Embassy, Belgrade, 

Serbia, I have traveled to Serbia and trained Serbian law enforcement, judicial, 

and government officials, as well as social service agencies on sex trafficking 

matters in 2011, and 2012. 

I have served as a panelist at several annual Human Trafficking Awareness Day 

events held at the Ohio Statehouse, Columbus, Ohio. 

I contributed to the publication of the FBI, Behavioral Analysis Unit’s Sex 

Trafficking of Juveniles: An Investigative Guide for Law Enforcement.

I developed and produced a roll call video training series on child sex trafficking for 

front line officers with the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the 

Department of Justice, Community Oriented Policing Services. 

I testified before the Ohio State Advisory Committee to the United States 

Commission on Civil Rights on sex trafficking matters in 2013

I testified before Ohio House of Representatives Judiciary and Ethics Committee 

on sex trafficking matters. 

I was selected by then Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray, and again by his 

predecessor Mike DeWine, to serve on Ohio’s Trafficking In Persons Commission. 

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I participated in NCMEC’s Long Tem Missing Summit, held in 2014.

I participated in the Supreme Court of Ohio, Courts’ Response to Trafficking in 

Children Workgroup.

I participated in the Lucas County Human Trafficking Coalition. 

I participated in ILNI operations at Super Bowl XLIV, in Miami, Florida, 2010, 

Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis, Indiana, 2012, and Super Bowl XLVIII in East 

Rutherford, New Jersey, 2014. 

I have participated in several ILNI Operation Cross County coordinated prostitution 

sting operations, coordinated amongst the ILNI task forces/working groups 

nationwide. 

Education

Master of Science, Criminal Justice, Forensic Psychology, with 

Distinction, Tiffin University, 2017

Bachelor of Criminal Justice, Forensic Psychology, summa cum laude,

Tiffin University, 1999 

Specialized Training 

Attended

2017 Leadership Development - Leading People, FBI, Leesburg, Virginia

2017 Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Case Coordination Seminar, FBI, New 

Orleans, Louisiana

2016 Symposium: 21st Century Violence Reduction Strategies, DOJ,

Dallas, Texas

2016 Managing Integration for Mission Success, FBI, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

2015 Child Abduction Rapid Deployment Case Coordination Seminar, FBI, Boston, 

Massachusetts

2014 Instructional Strategies Course, FBI, Quantico, Virginia

2014 Presentation Skills Course, FBI, Washington, District of Columbia

2013 Interviewing Strategies through Statement Analysis, FBI, Quantico, Virginia

2013 Crime Scene and Death Scene Investigation, Cuyahoga County Medical 

Examiner’s Office, Cleveland, Ohio

2012 Innocence Lost National Initiative Case Coordination Meeting, FBI, 

Chicago, Illinois 

 

2012 Civil Rights Conference: The Cost of Human Trafficking, FBI/DOJ, Cleveland, 

Ohio

2012 Introduction to Death Scene Investigation, Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s 

Office, Cleveland, Ohio

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2011 Evidence Response Team - Forensic Light Source, Reflective Ultra Violet 

Imaging System, Fuming and Dye Stain Training, SPEX Forensics, Cleveland, 

Ohio

2010 National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime Regional Workshop, FBI, Ann 

Arbor, Michigan

2010 Evidence Response Team - Human Remains Recovery School, FBI/University of 

Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

2010 On-Line Covert Employee Course, FBI, Calverton, Maryland

2010 Innocence Lost: Basic On-Line Covert Investigative Training, FBI, Calverton, 

Maryland

2009 Crimes Against Children Conference, Dallas Police Academy, Dallas, Texas

2009 Evidence Response Team - Post Blast Investigator School, FBI, Arlington, Texas

2009 Innocence Lost National Initiative Training Conference, FBI, St. Louis, Missouri 

2009 Juvenile Prostitution Forensic Interviewing, U.S. Department of Justice, 

Columbia, South Carolina

2009 Protecting Victims of Child Prostitution, National Center for Missing and Exploited 

Children, Atlanta, Georgia 

2008 National Center for Analysis of Violent Crime Coordinator’s Basic In-Service, 

FBI, Quantico, Virginia

2007 Regional Indian Gaming Conference, FBI, San Francisco, California

2005 2nd International Conference on Asian Organized Crime and Terrorism, 

Uncasville, Connecticut

2004 Indian Country Gaming Investigation Training, FBI, Groton, Connecticut

2004 Evidence Response Team - Reflective Ultra Violet Imaging System Technology 

Certification Course, Sirchie Fingerprint Laboratories, Youngsville, North Carolina

2004 Evidence Response Team - Advanced Latents, FBI, Albuquerque, New Mexico

2002 Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival, FBI, San Diego, California

2001 Crimes Against Children Conference, Dallas Police Academy, Dallas, Texas

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AWARDS &

DISTINCTIONS

2017 Citation for Special Achievement, FBI Cleveland (for outstanding efforts as the 

Violent Crimes Against Children Program Coordinator for the Cleveland Division)

2017 Graduate Student Award, Ohio Council of Criminal Justice Education

 

2013 Paladin Award, The Daughter Project (non-profit serving sex trafficking victims for 

work combating sex trafficking in Ohio)

2012 Distinguished Law Enforcement Group Achievement Award, Ohio Attorney 

General’s Office (for work combating sex trafficking in Ohio)

2012 Certificate of Achievement, FBI Cleveland (for exceptional performance of duties in 

a sex trafficking case)

2010 Distinguished Service Award, Buckeye State Sheriff’s Association (for work 

combating sex trafficking in Ohio)

2010 Outstanding Service Award, Owens Community College (for work combating sex 

trafficking in Northwest Ohio)

2006 Certificate of Achievement, FBI San Diego (for exceptional performance of duties in 

an investigation that led to the dismantlement of a criminal organization involved in 

card cheating scams at casinos in the United States and Canada)

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