DOE Official Charged With Felony Theft, Stealing Vera Bradley Luggage Bag

The state of Minnesota has charged the Energy Department’s head of spent nuclear fuel management with felony theft, court documents show.
A criminal complaint filed Sunday in a Minnesota court shows the agency’s Sam Brinton, who began working in June as DOE’s deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition, is accused of stealing a bag in September from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s baggage claim area.
The complaint alleges Brinton, reportedly the first openly gender-fluid person in federal government leadership, on Sept. 16 was seen on airport surveillance video taking a hard-sided roller bag from a baggage claim carousel — a bag similar to one reported missing that day.
The woman who reported the bag missing says the total value of items in the allegedly stolen bag was roughly $2,325.

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