A top Biden administration nuclear official is facing jail time after allegedly being caught on camera stealing a bag containing thousands of dollars of items.
Samuel Brinton, a deputy assistant secretary in the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, intentionally stole the bag from an airport in Minnesota, authorities say.
Brinton admitted to the theft, according to charging documents.
The Department of Energy and the Office of Nuclear Energy did not respond to requests for comment.
A lawyer representing Brinton did not return an inquiry.
Brinton could not be reached.
Theft
Law enforcement officers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport were alerted on Sept. 16 to a missing suitcase by a woman who said her checked bag was not on the carousel despite being scanned as arriving at the airport….