Sam Brinton Sent Packing His Bags From DOE
An Arrest Warrant Has Also Been Issued By Las Vegas Police In A Separate Luggage Theft
It took exactly two luggage thefts totaling in excess of $5000 from different airports for the Biden administration to finally terminate Sam Brinton from his job at DOE.
Police in Las Vegas, Nevada, issued an arrest warrant for nuclear energy official Sam Brinton in a luggage theft case after an officer recognized the government employee from news articles about a separate stolen luggage accusation.
Authorities temporarily closed a case about a stolen suitcase on July 6 at Las Vegas' Harry Reid International Airport after they couldn't identify a suspect from surveillance footage.
But police reopened the case on November 29 and named Brinton as a suspect after he was charged with felony theft over accusations that he swiped a mother's Vera Bradley suitcase from an airport in Minnesota in September, according to Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department records.
Brinton — the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy — made headlines late last month in connection with the Minnesota case.
"Numerous news articles covering the story had photographs of Brinton" who an officer "immediately recognized as the suspect pertaining to" the Las Vegas case, states an arrest warrant issued for Brinton.
Las Vegas police issued a felony arrest warrant on grand larceny charge for Brinton — who is one of the federal government's first openly "gender fluid" employee and uses they/them pronouns — last week.
According to the arrest warrant, police say that Brinton "can clearly be seen and identified on video stealing" a woman's gray Away luggage from a carousel at baggage claim in the Las Vegas airport on July 6 "and leaving" with it.
The hard case bag and its contents were estimated to be worth $3,670.74, according to the warrant. The victim told police she had jewelry worth $1,700 and makeup valued at $500 in the luggage.
Brinton, 35, was placed on administrative leave by the Department of Energy last month after they were accused of taking a woman's Vera Bradley suitcase from baggage claim at Minnesota's Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on September 16.
You may have believed that Brinton’s capacity to work at DOE has nothing to do with his kink activism, but he doesn’t share your belief. He believed that it was good and right to gain access to senior levels of government and use that access for advocacy. Anybody inside DOE who had to work with this guy was on notice that he was watching them for signs that they didn’t affirm him in every way - and he will have made trouble for them.
His supervisors and co-workers alike were afraid of him as he screamed “TRANSPHOBIA” whenever anyone around him expressed any discomfort - and that he was extremely difficult to fire.
They all knew that Brinton was going to ruin them professionally if they stepped out of line.
This is finally what it took to fire him.