(TheConservativeNews.org) – A Tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston alleged Wednesday that clothing worn by former Department of Energy (DOE) official Sam Brinton had been contained in her luggage that she reported missing in Washington, D.C., in 2018.
On Monday, a fashion designer named Asya Khamsin, tweeted: “My name is Asyakhamsin tanzanian fashion designer based in Houston Texas USA / I lost my bag 2018 in DCA recently I heard the news on @FoxNews about @sambrinton luggage issue surprisingly I found his images wore my custom made outfits which was in the lost bag on 2018.” By way of proof, she attached two photos: one showed a smiling Khamsin wearing a beautiful flowing red gown adorned with flowery designs in black. The other showed Brinton, also smiling and sporting both lipstick and a mustache, and what is unmistakably Asya Khamsin’s gown.
Asya Khamsin, who has designed and hand-made her own clothing line for years, said she recently saw a report that Brinton had been charged with stealing multiple pieces of luggage across the country and noticed that the former official appeared to be wearing her clothes in several photos. Khamsin said she had packed the same clothes in a bag that vanished on March 9, 2018, at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
“I saw the images. Those were my custom designs, which were lost in that bag in 2018,” she told Fox News Digital in an interview. “He wore my clothes, which was stolen.”
Khamsin added that she had flown to Washington, D.C., to attend an event where she was invited to put her clothing on display. However, the disappearance of her bag prevented her from participating.
A Twitter user responded to the with a request: “Drop all pics you have of your clothes. Let’s see if we can find Brinton in them lmao.” Only nine minutes later, Khamsin posted three more pictures (actually four, but one was a duplication). One showed a runway model wearing another of her stunning creations. The other two showed Brinton. In one, he grins happily as he poses while wearing what is obviously the same item of clothing; in the other, he is speaking at an event wearing outlandish multicolored high heels and Khamsin’s caftan. Other Twitter users found three other photos of Brinton wearing the same thing. Notably, one of them dated the photo to Oct. 22, 2018, the year that Khamsin says she lost her luggage in the Washington, D.C., airport. “He liked your clothes a lot,” one of them pointed out.
Brinton is facing significant prison time and hefty fines in relation to two separate baggage theft cases.
On Oct. 26, Minnesota prosecutors charged Brinton with stealing a suitcase worth $2,325 from a Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport baggage carousel in September. Brinton faces up to five years in prison for the alleged crime and was released without bail following a court hearing last week.
