Controversial energy official charged with stealing woman’s luggage at MSP

Anthony GockowskiNovember 28, 2022

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Sam Brinton/Twitter

Sam Brinton, one of the first “openly genderfluid individuals in federal government leadership,” was charged with felony theft last month after allegedly stealing a woman’s luggage at MSP Airport.

The MIT grad went viral earlier this year when he announced his new role as the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the U.S. Department of Energy.

The charges

Law enforcement at the Minneapolis-St. Paul (MSP) International Airport were alerted to a missing suitcase in the baggage claim area on Sept. 16. The adult female victim said she flew into MSP on a Delta flight from New Orleans and went to retrieve her checked bag at carousel seven.

Airport records confirmed the navy blue Vera Bradley roller bag arrived at 4:40 p.m. but was missing from the carousel. So law enforcement reviewed video surveillance footage from the baggage claim area and observed Brinton removing a navy blue roller bag from carousel seven, according to a criminal complaint.

The complaint says Brinton removed a luggage tag from the bag, placed it into a handbag he was carrying, and “then left the area at a quick pace.” Brinton arrived at MSP Airport around 4:27 p.m. on an American Airlines flight from Washington, D.C., but did not check a bag, meaning he had no reason to visit baggage claim, according to the complaint.

Sam Brinton/Department of Energy

Police showed the surveillance video to the victim and she confirmed it was her bag.

Brinton left the airport in an Uber for a stay at the InterContinental St. Paul Riverfront hotel, where he checked in with the blue bag, the complaint says.

He returned to MSP on Sept. 18 with the bag in hand for a departing flight back to Washington, D.C., authorities allege.

Surveillance video from Dulles International Airport shows Brinton traveling with the bag on an Oct. 9 return trip from Europe, the complaint notes.

The victim said the estimated value of the bag and its contents was around $2,325.

Police questioned Brinton about the missing bag in an Oct. 9 phone call and asked him directly if he “took anything that did not belong” to him.

“Not that I know of,” Brinton allegedly responded. He later admitted to taking the bag but said the clothes inside were his, according to the complaint.

“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” he told police, according to the complaint.

Brinton allegedly called the investigating officer two hours later and apologized for not being “completely honest.” This time Brinton said he took the bag because he was tired and thought it was his, the complaint says.

He allegedly told police that he realized the bag didn’t belong to him when he opened it up at the hotel but “got nervous” and didn’t “know what to do.” Worried that people would think he “stole the bag,” Brinton told police he left the victim’s clothes in the drawers in the hotel room, according to the complaint.

Brinton said he brought the bag back to D.C. with him because it would have been “weirder” to leave a bag in the hotel room, according to police.

Police told Brinton how to return the bag to Delta, but as of Oct. 27 the victim still had not received her bag back.

Police also learned that no clothing was recovered from the hotel room.

Brinton’s first court hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19 in Hennepin County. Alpha News attempted to contact Brinton via email but received an automatic reply saying he is on leave and unable to access his email. The Department of Energy declined to comment. Brinton’s attorneys did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554405)

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/brinton-on-leave-of-absence-from-doe-petry-asked-to-stay-on-as-acting-nuclear-waste-chief/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554841)

https://alphanews.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Brinton2-1-1920x1280.jpg.webp

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554445)

“If I had taken the wrong bag, I am happy to return it, but I don’t have any clothes for another individual. That was my clothes when I opened the bag,” he told police, according to the complaint.

Brinton allegedly called the investigating officer two hours later and apologized for not being “completely honest.” This time Brinton said he took the bag because he was tired and thought it was his, the complaint says.

He allegedly told police that he realized the bag didn’t belong to him when he opened it up at the hotel but “got nervous” and didn’t “know what to do.” Worried that people would think he “stole the bag,” Brinton told police he left the victim’s clothes in the drawers in the hotel room, according to the complaint.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554458)

He splooged all over them and tossed them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554803)

Brinton said he brought the bag back to D.C. with him because it would have been “weirder” to leave a bag in the hotel room, according to police.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554475)

Expect Merrick Garland to bring the hammer on them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554564)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45555215)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45554936)

https://www.energy.gov/ne/person/sam-brinton

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45555198)

even MIT grants these fraud certificates now? sad!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45557783)

https://www.exchangemonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/mcro-27-cr-22-21567-e-filed-comp-summons-2022-10-27-20221128135812.pdf

“Gender: UNKNOWN”

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45555801)

"DEFENDANT admitted to taking the blue bag, but stated they were tired and took the suitcase thinking it was theirs. DEFENDANT said when they opened the bag at the hotel, they realized it was not theirs. DEFENDANT got nervous people would think they stole the bag and did not know what to do. DEFENDANT stated they left the clothes from the bag inside the drawers in the hotel room."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45559279)

black privilege >>> cross-dresser privilege?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45555821)

https://files.catbox.moe/4u6p1p.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45555844)

From a quick google: Cop is cute and married to another woman. Prosecutor is the finest Hamline Law has to offer.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45556469)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479159/DOE-spent-fuel-chief-Sam-Brinton-charged-felony-theft-Minnesota.html

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45556559)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45556891)

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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45557788)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11479159/DOE-spent-fuel-chief-Sam-Brinton-charged-felony-theft-Minnesota.html

So now he's also claiming to be black too?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45557876)

well that means he made a simple, understandable mistake!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45558173)

https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/09/02/op-ed-real-ramifications-rentboy-raid

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45558176)

the top NBC hit is a month-old puff piece on Brinton.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45558444)

and isn't nearly as bad as when Rethuglicans pounced on the Clinton's stealing furniture when they left the WH!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45558520)

A typical DBG vacation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45560929)

Did he see the person check in and then think about taking her bag during the entire flight?

Does he just covet Vera Bradley bags? Or associate them with stylish women? Sometimes older women use them (my mom has one) so I’m not sure how decided to go for it

Was he just LARPing as chick-on-weekend vacay and decided he needed a bag to complete the look?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45562745)

If caught in the act by the bag owner, I'm sure his plan was just to say "I'm sorry; girl, I have the same bag! where is it?!"

This cannot be the first time he's stolen women's clothing. Definitely tried on his mom's or sister's things growing up & grew into stealing things from shared laundries

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45563447)

But he seems to be pretty much exclusively gay

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45571967)

is he one of those autogynpheliacs? gets off on imagining himself with a woman's beauty? because he sure doesn't act like the gay men i know.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45572204)

I do know that there are a *lot* of "MTF" "trannies" that are primarily attracted to women and they get offended at the idea that they are simply conflating their sexual attraction with their gender identity.

I don't think this guy is attracted to women at all. The interview that someone poasted below makes it fairly clear

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45572451)

Basically accusing his parents of domestic abuse.

https://youtu.be/Qf5dqzcy3bc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5243420&forum_id=2#45562751)