October 3, 2023

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Fashion designer claims Sam Brinton wore her stolen clothes

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A style designer from Houston claimed that disgraced previous Section of Vitality official Sam Brinton wore the customized-made garments that she experienced reported missing from a Washington, DC, airport in 2018.

Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian vogue designer who has built her very own clothes for many years, shared the shocking connection in a Monday tweet that has because gone viral.

Khamsin mentioned she found images of Brinton donning her personalized outfits that she had packed in the lacking bag just after learning that Brinton experienced been charged with thieving many items of luggage from two US airports.

The manner designer tweeted images displaying some of the garments she lost and then Brinton — who identifies as nonbinary and makes use of they/them pronouns — sporting the exact outfits.

“I saw the illustrations or photos. Individuals had been my custom layouts, which had been shed in that bag in 2018,” she informed Fox Information. “He wore my outfits, which was stolen.”


Khamsin termed the police following seeing information experiences on Brinton’s other baggage thefts from airports.
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A picture of Asya Khamsin.
Asya Khamsin is a Tanzanian trend designer based out of Houston.
Asya Khamsin

2018 from the Instagram account of Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston Texas.
Khamsin has accused Brinton of carrying her outfits that disappeared from an airport in 2018.
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Photo circa March 2018 from the Instagram account of Asya Khamsin, a Tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston Texas.
“I noticed the illustrations or photos. These ended up my custom models, which have been missing in that bag in 2018,” Khamsin mentioned.
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Khamsin’s bag vanished from the Ronald Reagan Washington Airport on March 9, 2018, immediately after she flew into the money for an party in which she was to put her apparel on display, she advised Fox. Having said that, after the bag disappeared, she was not able to take part.

Her partner filed reports with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Law enforcement Department and filed a assert with Delta Airlines, which is the airline Khamsin made use of to fly from Houston to DC. The bag was in no way recovered.

Communications concerning Delta and Khamsin shared with Fox Information present the vogue designer pleading with the airline for her bag back again, stating it was entire of high priced apparel, sneakers, jewellery and other individual items.


A picture of Sam Brinton.
Khamsin explained she identified shots of Brinton sporting her custom made clothes just after understanding that Brinton was billed with stealing various parts of luggage from two US airports.
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A picture of one of Khamsin's dresses on the runway.
The manner designer tweeted shots displaying some of the outfits she dropped and Brinton donning the identical outfits.
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Just after viewing shots of Brinton donning what she thinks are her clothes on the news, she submitted a report with the Houston Police Office on Dec. 16. In late January, she reported, she was contacted by the FBI area business in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in accordance to Khamsin’s partner.

“Houston police, I guess, they [sent] the situation to the FBI in Minnesota,” Khamsin’s husband instructed Fox. “He referred to as to say, ‘I’m [with] the FBI, I’m doing the job on this case.’ Then my wife gave him the info and we didn’t listen to nearly anything. We do not know whether the scenario is on. We really don’t know whether the scenario is chilly.”

The FBI would not ensure that it is investigating, for each the agency’s policy. As of Wednesday evening, Brinton had not been billed with any crime associated to Khamsin’s apparel.


Sam Brinton speaks onstage during the Trevor Project's TrevorLIVE LA 2018 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on December 3, 2018 in Beverly Hills, California.
Brinton was fired from the DOE previous year soon after they ended up charged with thieving baggage from airports in Minneapolis and Las Vegas.
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Brinton, 35, served as the Biden administration’s deputy assistant secretary for expended gasoline and waste disposition at the DOE’s Business of Nuclear Energy in advance of they were being canned immediately after they ended up billed with stealing a woman’s suitcase from a Minneapolis airport in September and an additional woman’s bag from a Las Vegas airport in July.

In both the Minnesota and Nevada conditions, Brinton had traveled on flights from Washington, DC, right before allegedly swiping the bags from the airports’ baggage carousels, in accordance to felony grievances received by Fox Information.

Brinton was launched devoid of bail and purchased not to contact any of the victims final 7 days right after a court look in Minnesota.


Sam Brinton attends The Trevor Project's TrevorLIVE LA 2019 at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on November 17, 2019
Brinton faces up to five several years in jail for the Minnesota theft.
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They appeared in Las Vegas court docket in December and have been released after submitting a $15,000 bond. The judge in that circumstance explained to the previous nuclear squander formal to “stay out of issues.”

Brinton faces up to 5 decades in prison for the Minnesota theft and up to 10 years’ jail time for the Las Vegas heist.

Makes an attempt to get in touch with Brinton and their legal professional in Las Vegas ended up unsuccessful. The Submit also arrived at out to Khamsin and Delta Airways for comment.

Supplemental reporting by David Propper and Marjorie Hernandez

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