Recommendations

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We want to express our sincerest thanks to you for your testimony related to the

nuances of sex trafficking.  The testimony and context you provided on sex trafficking,

especially in street level prostitution cases, was an invaluable education to our jury and

our judge.  The foundation you laid and the groundwork you paved, which was followed

by the testimony of our three victims and one other victim who testified as an other

crimes victim, was vital to securing convictions in our case.

The judge has made numerous references to the type of sex trafficking this drug

trafficking organization was engaged in - explaining his most recent heavy-hitting

sentences and the reasoning behind them as well as his disdain for this violent behavior

in an educated and compassionate manner and I credit your explanation about this

topic to his understanding of it.  Thank you again.

I have been an Assistant United States Attorney for 12 years and I am the Human

Trafficking Coordinator and Project Safe Childhood Coordinator for the Eastern District

of Arkansas. SA Landau has testified as an expert witness, or prepared to testify as

one, in multiple sex trafficking prosecutions in our district. While I have had other agents

testify as experts (only when SA Landau was unavailable), none of them compared to

her. Her knowledge of this field is unparalleled, as well as her ability to testify. With over

20 years investigating sex trafficking cases, I cannot imagine there is anyone in the field

with more experience than her.

Carrie, who has served for more than 20 years as a special agent with the Federal

Bureau of Investigation, is a nationally recognized expert and leader in human

trafficking amongst law enforcement professionals. I met Carrie for the first time in 2018

when a colleague recommended I call her as a sex trafficking expert at trial. Ever since,

Carrie has been my first choice for expert testimony in sex trafficking cases. She has

testified as an expert in three of the four sex trafficking trials I have conducted, and we

have prepared her trial testimony in several other cases that were ultimately resolved.

Carrie’s expertise in sex trafficking and her ability to effectively educate others—in my

case, jurors—on the topic are unmatched. While providing expert testimony, Carrie is

able to articulate and explain challenging, counterintuitive concepts such as the

dynamics between the trafficker and how a trafficker identifies and exploits a victim’s

vulnerabilities to gain compliance

As the former Human Trafficking Coordinator of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, I worked with

SA Landau (Carrie) on an almost daily basis prosecuting some of the most significant

human trafficking cases in our District. Carrie’s work ethic, dedication, resilience, and

innovative thinking made her the most requested agent by all AUSAs who worked

human trafficking cases. Whenever we had a trafficking case that we knew needed the

best agent to keep it alive, the first call was always to Carrie. Carrie would investigative

every lead, spent countless hours with victims meeting their every need, and coordinate

with both agents and prosecutors to ensure that her cases were prosecuted and the

offender held accountable for his or her criminal conduct.