Tue Nov 29, 2022 – 5:45 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – In yet another black eye for the White House, a controversial Biden administration energy official has been charged with stealing a woman’s suitcase from an airport.
In February, energy policy consultant and “nonbinary” LGBT activist Sam Brinton was chosen as deputy assistant secretary of Spent Fuel & Waste Disposition for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (ONE).
Brinton’s hiring drew attention for his extracurricular activities, including drag, BDSM-tinged “puppy play” (a fetish that involves pretending to be dogs or dog handlers), and lobbying against talk therapy for unwanted same-sex attraction, ostensibly driven by his experience as a “survivor of a traumatic and torturous conversion therapy experience” (the veracity of which has been called into question).
The New York Post reported that Brinton has been charged with felony theft of a moveable property without consent for taking a $2,325 Vera Bradley suitcase from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport baggage claim in September, punishable by up to a five-year prison sentence and/or a $10,000 fine.
He was captured on surveillance footage apparently removing the bag’s ID tag at the airport, and initially told police it was
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