A little more than a year ago, former Department of Energy official Sam Brinton flew from Washington, D.C. to Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. That day, the 35-year-old “nonbinary” transsexual government official was on his way to the Department of Energy’s Nevada National Security Site.
On the way, he was videotaped stealing luggage from the airport in Las Vegas.
The latest twist in the twisted life of Sam Brinton is that he was flying on taxpayer-funded trip when he allegedly committed the crime of taking a woman’s designer luggage from the carousel at the baggage claim area, and casually leaving the airport with it.

The Functional Government Initiative requested the travel records showing Brinton’s itinerary, and show that Brinton flew on a United Airlines flight from Washington, DC, to Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas on July 6, 2022. Police say the suitcase had estimated $3,500 value of jewelry, clothing, and makeup, when Brinton stole it. He is also accused of similar heists in other airports.
Functional Government Initiative is a group that sets its sights on government waste and abuse.
“It’s outrageous that tax dollars transported Brinton to and from the scene of a crime, putting the American public unwittingly at the wheel of the getaway car,” Functional Government Initiative spokesperson Peter McGinnis told Fox News. “The federal government obviously needs a more stringent vetting process for senior-level positions. Senior officials committing petty crime while on the clock is a clear indication that something is dysfunctional in the personnel procedures.”
The story was first reported by Fox News.
Brinton, before being named to the Department of Energy by the Biden Administration, who put him in charge of spent nuclear fuel, founded the Trevor Project, which has been accused of grooming children online for sexual purposes, such as gender surgeries.
The Trevor Project advised the gay-aligned majority of the Anchorage Assembly to pass an ordinance that prohibits therapists from talking to children about how they might not want to change genders or how they might not be gay. The only way therapists in Anchorage can approach the topic of “gay” and “gender” is to affirm whatever the child says, or the therapists will be arrested and subject to massive fines.
Brinton’s purpose for traveling to the the Nevada National Security Site is unclear, but the secure site “help ensure the security of the United States and its allies by: supporting the stewardship of the nation’s nuclear deterrent; providing nuclear and radiological emergency response capabilities and training; contributing to key nonproliferation and arms control initiatives; executing national-level experiments in support of the National Laboratories; working with national security customers and other federal agencies on important national security activities; and providing long-term environmental stewardship of the NNSS’s Cold War legacy, according to the National Security Site website.
For his four-day trip, Brinton charged $1,951.50 to taxpayers on his expense report, according to Fox.
Brinton has an extensive social media history that includes his many passions. He is a founder of the controversial, anti-Christian Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and has given classes on kink sex.

Meanwhile, the American Nuclear Society has scrubbed a 2016 talk by Brinton from its website. Back in 2016, the scientists proudly invited him to speak about “his passion, nuclear waste policy and changing the outdated images of nuclear advocates.” In that year, the scientists referred to Brinton as a “he,” but Brinton now says he cannot be defined by gender.
