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Tue Nov 29, 2022, 10:40 PM Nov 2022

A Biden administration official is on leave after they were charged with stealing a Vera Bradley sui [View all]

A Biden administration official is on leave after they were charged with stealing a Vera Bradley suitcase worth over $2,000 from a Minnesota airport

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Sam Brinton, the deputy assistant secretary of the Office of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy, was accused of taking the luggage from baggage claim at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport on September 16, according to a complaint filed last month.

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Surveillance footage captured Brinton, 35, taking the Vera Bradley luggage from the carousel at around 4:45 p.m. after Brinton arrived at the airport on an American Airlines flight from Washington, DC, the court documents allege.

The complaint states that Brinton took off the bag's tag and left the area "at a quick pace" before hopping into a cab; records from American Airlines show Brinton never checked a bag before they left Washington DC, according to the Court papers.

Brinton was then caught on surveillance footage camera checking into a luxury riverfront hotel in St. Paul with the bag, the complaint says. Two days later, on September 18, Brinton was seen checking the bag before boarding a flight back to Washington DC, the documents state. Brinton was again seen on surveillance video carrying the bag at Washington Dulles International Airport in Virginia after returning from a Europe trip on October 9, investigators said.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-administration-official-leave-were-170737660.html

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Curiouser and curiouser..

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Dumb. OTOH A Trump official who got caught doing this would have claimed the Deep State framed him. emulatorloo Nov 2022 #1
Tin foil hat time yankee87 Nov 2022 #17
My first thought -- what was in the bag? nt woodsprite Nov 2022 #2
2300 usd (which is hardly a huge amount) worth of clothing, etc Celerity Nov 2022 #13
"On leave" isn't enough. secondwind Nov 2022 #3
Will no doubt get fired after the investigation is complete. emulatorloo Nov 2022 #4
Sounds like something they might have done before womanofthehills Nov 2022 #15
Yeah, that hardly seems like an entry point for thievery. BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #30
Wonder why the article identifies them as a "Biden administration official" Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #5
Yeah it's being reported that way everywhere underpants Nov 2022 #6
Yep. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #7
If you search their name & select photos you will know why womanofthehills Nov 2022 #16
Sounds like a Civil Service position, but given the unusual circumstances of the case, Ocelot II Nov 2022 #8
I suppose right wing media see this as balancing out the Oath Keepers thucythucy Nov 2022 #9
I bet you're right. Hadn't thought of that. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #10
The most expensive suitcases are about $500, so it's likely that Ocelot II Nov 2022 #11
Ah! That makes sense. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #22
From the article: The 26-inch navy blue hard-sided roller bag and its contents were estimated to be Celerity Nov 2022 #12
Another article said the amount included the woman's clothes womanofthehills Nov 2022 #14
I doubt it will be contested womanofthehills Nov 2022 #18
An intriguing person indeed. nt thucythucy Nov 2022 #34
I guessing not after this incident MichMan Nov 2022 #19
it's Yahoo news, of course they would link it to Biden admin onetexan Nov 2022 #29
This sounds like a script catchnrelease Nov 2022 #20
I read they kept using their stolen suitcase for 2 or more flights after they stole it womanofthehills Nov 2022 #21
If I were going to steal a suitcase from the baggage carousel, Ocelot II Nov 2022 #23
Might have been what they found appealing about it. MichMan Dec 2022 #40
In the end, though, would thus be a story if it had been anyone else? Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #24
You're right. It's not all that unusual for luggage to be stolen, Ocelot II Nov 2022 #27
Exactly. It would have been a REALLY embarassing moment when the accountant's wife Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #28
Ha, I called it! This story is, in fact, on the inside back page Ocelot II Nov 2022 #36
I don't care about the person's gender, but their position with (most likely) security BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #31
Yes. Scrivener7 Nov 2022 #32
Yahoo is my home page, so when I opened it and the headline with a photo of, supposedly a bald question everything Nov 2022 #35
It's newsworthy because they are a notable person Jose Garcia Nov 2022 #37
Not to mention I would assume they have a security clearance. BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #38
People forget that cameras are everywhere. Evergreen Emerald Nov 2022 #25
Not everywhere. But definitely at airports Jose Garcia Nov 2022 #39
This story along with some pageant won by a Transgender woman is being pushed by the Right Wing JI7 Nov 2022 #26
This message was self-deleted by its author tblue37 Nov 2022 #33
Brinton has now been charged with a second luggage theft in Vegas. MichMan Dec 2022 #41
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