Sam Brinton, the former Department of Energy official best known for stealing women’s luggage in airport terminals, apparently committed at least one of his crimes while on a taxpayer-funded work trip.
Brinton, who uses “non-binary” they/them pronouns, dresses in drag, and boasts publicly about his “puppy roleplay fetish,” was appointed as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in June of last year. While in that role, he drew extensive criticism from the Right over his appearances at White House functions in dresses and high heels, as well as his promotion of various “kink seminars.”
In December 2022, Brinton was fired from the Department of Energy over reports that he had been caught on camera stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Las Vegas airport in July of that year, making off with approximately $3,670 in makeup, jewelry, and clothes. Shortly after, Brinton was charged with two more instances of luggage theft, first at Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport in Minnesota and then again for a theft that allegedly took place in 2018 at Reagan National Airport in Virginia.
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According to a report sent by federal watchdog group Functional Government Initiative (FGI) to The New York Post, Brinton’s first airport caper took place while he was traveling at taxpayers’ expense!
“Not only did Sam Brinton commit a crime, the illegal shopping spree was funded by taxpayers,” said Pete McGinnis, FGI’s Director of Communications. Brinton took his Vegas trip, which ran from July 6 through July 9, 2022, in his official capacity as a Department of Energy employee—and his travel expenses cost taxpayers $1,951.50.
Following his arrest for the first theft, Brinton paid a fine of $3,500 and was given a suspended 180-day jail sentence. Immediately after, he faced charges for the second incident. He was most recently arrested in Maryland for the 2018 theft, during which he stole the suitcase of Tanzanian fashion designer Asya Khamsin. He was later found to have worn several of Khamsin’s one-of-a-kind designs to public functions, which tipped off the designer to the identity of the thief.
Brinton was held in a men’s jail in Maryland prior to being released on bond last month.
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