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Follow the money, read the proposals, and inspect the votes. A connected record of personal disclosures, campaign finance, organizations, and public policy.
Reviewed September 12, 2026. Coverage dates vary by source. Every entry states what the evidence establishes and where it stops.
Legislative inventory
Inspect 441 sponsorships and 4,862 cosponsorships in official records for 2003–2026, including 2 later withdrawals. Search titles and recorded actions, then open the document links and source hashes.
Sponsorship is distinct from a vote or an enacted law. The 1991–2002 period and amendments are not yet included.
In focus / AI legislation
Sanders and Casar’s official September 3 materials propose a maximum 20-year prison term for attempts to violate or circumvent specified AI pauses and prohibitions. They describe forthcoming legislation, and no filed number or full statutory text was located. The summary’s scope extends beyond expressly malicious uses, while leaving key definitions and offense elements unresolved. It does not establish that every AI developer would commit a crime.
The distinction matters: a sponsor announcement, filed bill text, and an enacted law are different records. The available summary leaves major questions about definitions, intent, exceptions, and enforcement.
In a March 2026 retrospective, Leahy described a 2024 ambition connecting Conjecture’s AI approach to a commercial product and a regulatory standard. This is an attributed historical strategy, not proof of a working product, a special exemption or Sanders adopting the standard.
Sources: Connor Leahy / Expedition to the Far Lands · ControlAI · ControlAI
PauseAI US runs a public support action. ControlAI says it consulted on the framework while publicly preferring a narrower approach to advanced-AI restrictions. The acquired September announcement has no organizational endorsement roster, and the consultation claim does not establish a paid engagement or agreement with every provision.
Sources: PauseAI US via mstr.app · PauseAI US · ControlAI
A 2024 Schedule I reports $100,000 from Manifold for Charity to PauseAI US under an exact recipient EIN. The related fundraiser describes fiscal sponsorship, so the filing alone does not make Manifund the ultimate donor. FLI separately lists a $200,000 recommendation with no acquired payment proof. These records support an organizational funding history; they do not show a Sanders campaign receipt, personal payment, or condition tied to the September 2026 proposal.
Sources: IRS filing via ProPublica · Manifund; PauseAI US · Future of Life Institute
MUR 7587 names Sanders and the two campaign committees as respondents. Its agreement cites Bernie 2016’s 2018 cease-and-desist, records a February 2019 hire by Bernie 2020, and admits the specified election-related decision-making violation in this matter. The FEC later acknowledged a $15,000 check from Bernie 2020 for the joint penalty. These historical public records do not separately adjudicate a breach of the earlier agreement, a criminal offense or an AI-policy funding connection.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission
Six previously verified campaign payments to the Institute total $925,000 for 2021–2025. Its public director biography describes a family relationship to Sanders, and its 2024 return reports $144,952 in reportable compensation plus $37,157 in other compensation for Driscoll. This establishes an institutional financial relationship worth examining, not that campaign dollars funded those payments. The same return describes concrete programs and reports three independent voting board members and a compensation-review process. In 2021, Vermont Public reported a campaign spokesperson’s statement that the $350,000 gift would not pay family salaries or benefits; the agreement and actual compliance were not independently acquired.
Sources: Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report · Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report · Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report
ControlAI publicly identifies links to Conjecture through its leadership and advisers. Separate official company records and Conjecture’s own financing statements document a for-profit business and intragroup financing. Those edges do not establish an onward payment to ControlAI or Sanders. Leahy’s April 2026 testimony also describes his Conjecture CEO role as former, so older biographies should not be used to assert two current CEO roles.
Sources: ControlAI · Senate of Canada · Companies House
The official Senate search returned the Calendar 2025 report filed August 13, 2026 at 10:15 AM. It reports $200,000 in publishing royalties, compared with $148,750 in the official 2024 report—a $51,250 difference between the two annual entries. The newly listed book agreement does not allocate that income to a particular title.
Sources: United States Senate, Office of Public Records · United States Senate, Office of Public Records
The selected 2023–2026 FEC query identifies one nonmemo payment to Penguin Random House: $44,999.86 on November 14, 2025. Twenty-two other selected publisher entries are vendor memos beneath American Express payments. These accounting layers must remain separate. The filings describe campaign literature without naming a book or allocating royalties.
Sources: Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report · Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission
Two reviewed cases ended in civil conciliation, while other reviewed complaints ended without a violation finding. The records preserve each outcome and the admission or non-admission terms of the particular agreement.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission
The historical calendar-2024 disclosure reports $148,750 from Penguin Random House and a separately listed $6,221.52 municipal pension. These are disclosed income entries, not evidence of hidden campaign backing.
Sources: U.S. Senate eFD report, public mirror hosted by NOTUS
The record does not support an absolute claim that Sanders abandoned climate policy for AI opposition. His office announced public-housing electrification and climate legislation on August 6, 2026, and a February committee statement identifies Solar for All advocacy. His data-center proposal also explicitly includes climate and environmental conditions.
Sources: U.S. Senate / Senator Bernie Sanders office · U.S. Senate / Senator Bernie Sanders office · U.S. Government Publishing Office
S. 4825 would require new equity issuance yielding 50% Treasury ownership in covered companies with receipts exceeding $200 million. Its text authorizes appropriations tied to 5% of average fund value after administration; it does not guarantee annual checks or a 5% return. The $7 trillion valuation is a sponsor projection. These provisions do not establish income or a financial benefit paid personally to Sanders.
Sources: U.S. Government Publishing Office · U.S. Senate / Senator Bernie Sanders office · U.S. Senate / Senator Bernie Sanders office
The collection separates authorized campaign committees, the leadership PAC and nonprofit returns. Adding their receipts would double-count some transfers and would not measure personal wealth or earnings.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission · ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer rendering of IRS-released filer Form 990
The filing describes spouse retirement funds and annuities, explicitly distinguishing them from individually held stocks. Their ranges should not be presented as exact wealth or evidence of control over underlying companies.
Sources: U.S. Senate eFD report, public mirror hosted by NOTUS · U.S. Senate
The reported agreement for The Speech directs publisher royalties to charity. The document does not quantify actual charitable remittances, so personal tax deductions alone cannot establish all charitable support.
Sources: U.S. Senate eFD report, public mirror hosted by NOTUS
Bernard Sanders’s book schedules report net profit of $796,858 for 2016, $855,484 for 2017, and $382,810 for 2018. The corresponding gross receipts were $840,485, $855,631, and $392,810. The 2017 joint return separately reports $106,250 of Jane Sanders book-author net profit. These figures identify reported income categories; they do not establish concealed funding, political influence, or the motives behind later AI proposals.
Sources: Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy · Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy · Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy
The public record includes organizational endorsements, reported committee contributions and agency-calculated independent expenditures. Those are separate relationships: outside spending is not campaign income, and an endorsement does not prove a payment.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission
For 2019–2020 the FEC displays $4,819,713.56 in Big Tent Project Fund spending opposing Sanders and $1,400,032.35 by DMFI PAC. These are outside expenditures, not donations to Sanders.
Sources: Federal Election Commission
The selected schedules identify National Nurses United, Friends of the Earth, Sierra Club, and ImpactAssets as grantors to the Sanders Institute, with an exact recipient EIN match in each return. Stated purposes range from general support to a panel on fossil fuel subsidies. The reporting periods differ; these entries are not an annual fundraising total and do not identify an underlying individual donor.
Sources: ProPublica mirror of IRS-released Form 990 · ProPublica mirror of IRS-released Form 990 · Friends of the Earth public-disclosure copy
Six selected grantor returns name Our Revolution and its EIN. Purposes include capacity building, general support, educational town halls, the 14Point3 project, and community mobilization around January 6 hearings. The records establish what these organizations reported. They do not establish that money was paid to Bernie Sanders, directed to a campaign, exchanged for policy, or connected to an AI bill.
Sources: ProPublica mirror of IRS-released Form 990 · ProPublica mirror of IRS-released Form 990 · ProPublica mirror of IRS-released Form 990
The current FEC query displays six non-memo campaign disbursements to The Sanders Institute between April 1, 2021 and December 11, 2025, totaling $925,000. Five newly indexed payments were matched to original electronic filings; the August 7, 2023 payment was already verified in the earlier collection. The total describes these reported outgoing payments, not personal income, the Institute’s annual revenue or the ultimate use of funds.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report · Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report
Original Bernie 2020 receipts record $5,000 from NUHW and $1,250 under the name Blue America PAC. The corresponding contributor-side records use earlier payment dates. A separate nurses-related receipt carries a different committee ID from the potential contributor counterpart. These evidence relationships must remain explicit; no aggregate “backer total” is derived from both sides.
Sources: Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission · Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report
The 2025 filing keeps the 2013 mortgage row and adds a 2025 row whose comment labels it as a refinancing. Each row is in the $100,001–$250,000 category. Summing both as simultaneous debt would ignore that comment and the rule that non-revolving liabilities reflect the highest amount owed during the reporting year.
Sources: United States Senate, Office of Public Records · U.S. Senate
ControlAI’s UK company reported £7.59 million in current assets at year-end 2025 alongside a £7.60 million combined accruals-and-deferred-income category and £20,122 in net assets. These figures describe a balance sheet, not unrestricted cash or named grant receipts. Its separate $50 million public fundraising scenario is not evidence that such funding was obtained.
Sources: UK Companies House · ControlAI · UK Companies House
Musk Foundation names FLI in its 2021 grant row; the two SVCF rows also give FLI’s exact recipient EIN. The foundation's leadership establishes a technology-executive connection, not a corporate grant. The historical purpose fields do not earmark these funds for FLI's May 2026 PauseAI recommendation or Sanders' proposal. The recommendation remains payment-unverified.
Sources: IRS filing via ProPublica · IRS filing via ProPublica · IRS filing via ProPublica
Leaves of Grass Fund's amended 2023 return reports $2,500 to FLI, replacing the original return's $2,000. The two versions should not be summed as separate grants. The filing does not establish the exact transfer dates or explain the underlying accounting correction.
Sources: IRS filing via ProPublica · IRS filing via ProPublica
The $200,000 receivable at the start of 2023 also appears at the end of 2022, and the Institute uses accrual accounting. That provides a documented reason to examine recognition dates before comparing campaign payments with annual revenue. The acquired returns and supplemental explanations do not name the receivable payer or match any of the six previously indexed campaign payments to a recipient accounting entry. The $46,649 difference between 2023 campaign disbursements and annual revenue is not evidence of missing money.
Sources: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer rendering of IRS-released filer Form 990 · ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer rendering of IRS-released filer Form 990 · Sanders Institute filing / IRS public-release mirror (ProPublica)
Control AI US, Inc.’s 2025 self-registration names Secure Future Research Ltd and reports $25,000 for lobbying activities. A separate 2026 consultant registration reports $5,000 for the same named foreign entity. These disclosures establish a reported institutional relationship; they are not a combined $30,000 grant total, a trace of ultimate donors, or evidence of payment to Sanders. Both ownership fields are 0%.
Sources: U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system · U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system · Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate
The organization’s Q1 and Q2 2026 Method A reports list $120,000 and $80,000. Their sum is $200,000 in rounded expense estimates for those two quarters. The reports describe advanced-AI risks and a generalized UK-entity interest; they do not establish a payment to an official or a particular legislative outcome. Retained-firm costs are already included under the reporting rules.
Sources: U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system · U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system · Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate
These are research questions with specific evidence still needed. A gap, association, or political disagreement does not establish misconduct.
Voluntarily released return copies were acquired for all ten tax years 2009–2018. Their income and federal-tax figures were reviewed; the series is not certified by the IRS and does not establish later amendments.
Next evidence: Any later voluntarily public tax returns and amendment history. The separate Senate annual disclosure for CY2025 was acquired; it is not an income-tax return. Missing acquisition is not evidence of nonfiling or concealed income.
Sanders 2009 joint tax return — archived public release · Sanders 2018 joint tax return — archived public release · Annual Report for Calendar 2025: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD)
The acquired CY2024 and CY2025 annual disclosures report publishing income of $148,750 and $200,000 respectively. A selected 2023–2026 campaign-spending query identifies one direct Penguin Random House payment and 22 publisher vendor memos beneath card payments. The accounting layers are different, and neither source allocates author income to these campaign orders.
Next evidence: Order-specific titles, invoices, voluntarily public contract or royalty statements, and any documented waiver, refund or remittance. Shared publisher names and dates do not establish that campaign purchases produced a particular personal royalty payment.
Annual Report for Calendar 2024: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD) · Annual Report for Calendar 2025: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD) · FEC processed publisher-recipient query and 23-row official export · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1941858
Report categories contain broad ranges and exclusions. Salary rates, AGI, asset balances and pension entitlements measure different things.
Next evidence: Period-matched complete records and a documented methodology; retain unknowns rather than synthesize an exact net-worth figure.
Sanders 2014 federal tax return, campaign release copy · Annual Report for Calendar 2024, The Honorable Bernard Sanders · Senate Salaries (1789 to Present) · Financial Disclosure Instructions for Calendar Year 2025
An official summary describes broad system definitions, an advanced-development pause and a maximum 20-year sentence for attempted violation or circumvention.
Next evidence: Filed statutory text, bill number, committee history, operational thresholds, criminal intent, research exceptions, culpable-person rules and transition provisions.
Official announcement of forthcoming Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act · Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act: sponsor release summary
The introduced text covers specified AI activity above a $200 million gross-receipts threshold, requires newly issued equity and provides structural separation rules.
Next evidence: Company-level application under the actual definitions, official fiscal/economic analysis if available, committee materials and subsequent amendments. Sponsor valuation claims need independently reproducible assumptions.
S.4825 introduced text · American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act summary
ControlAI says it consulted on the Sanders–Casar framework while preferring a narrower approach. PauseAI US runs a public support action. Separate institutional records establish a reported Manifund grant and an FLI recommendation, with fiscal-sponsorship and payment-status limits. These are distinct relationships; none establishes a payment to Sanders or a financial motive for his proposal.
Next evidence: Dated primary lobbying or financial disclosures and explicit engagement records establishing the relevant legal entity, services, payer and recipient. Preserve unpaid versus paid, advice versus endorsement, and recommendation versus payment. Timing or organizational proximity alone does not establish a quid pro quo.
ControlAI describes consultation on the Sanders–Casar framework · Support the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act · Manifold for Charity CY2024 Form 990 Schedule I · PauseAI US 2025 through Q2: fundraiser and final report · PauseAI US grant recommendation · Official announcement of forthcoming Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act
The FEC identifies the committee, but this retrieval returned no financial summary for the requested 2006 cycle.
Next evidence: Underlying reports and organization statements; do not substitute zero for missing summary data.
Six non-memo campaign disbursements to the Sanders Institute between April 1, 2021 and December 11, 2025 total $925,000 in the reviewed FEC query. All six were matched to original filings. The acquired 2023 Institute return uses accrual accounting; payment dates alone do not establish revenue-recognition dates or ultimate use.
Next evidence: Earlier or later original and amended Schedule B records, exact transaction and recipient identity, and recipient accounting entries or restricted-gift terms that reconcile the located payments. The selected six-payment series is not claimed to be a complete lifetime history or personal income.
FEC processed disbursements to Sanders Institute · 2021–2026 query · BERNIE 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1517271 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1698754 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1856815 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1941858 · Friends of Bernie Sanders — 2023 Q3 Schedule B, page 7873 · Sanders Institute — 2023 IRS Form 990 (object 202423209349327217)
The FEC guide addresses charity spending before candidate or family compensation. The regulation expressly names the candidate; AO 2012-05 concerns a deceased candidate and a restricted, segregated gift to an organization employing relatives. In 2021, a campaign spokesperson told Vermont Public that the $350,000 Institute gift would not pay family salaries or benefits. Public donation dates and annual compensation totals do not establish the spending and compensation sequence addressed by the guidance.
Next evidence: The actual dated terms for each gift, expenditure and compensation timing, evidence of any personal benefit, and any relevant agency disposition. The reported 2021 restriction is not the acquired agreement, proof of compliance or evidence of terms governing later gifts. Annual totals alone establish neither a violation nor legal clearance; the rule, agency guidance and fact-specific opinions must be distinguished.
FEC personal-use guidance · charitable donations · Sanders Institute Gathering · April 3–5, 2024 program and director biography · Sanders Institute — 2024 IRS Form 990 (object 202523219349323472) · BERNIE 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1517271 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1698754 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1856815 · FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1941858 · Friends of Bernie Sanders — 2023 Q3 Schedule B, page 7873 · Vermont Public: campaign spokesperson describes restriction on the 2021 Institute gift · FEC summary of AO 2012-05: Lantos committee donation to charity · 11 CFR 113.1: personal-use definitions
The two acquired versions have submission dates November 15 and December 17, 2024. The December version is explicitly marked amended. It reports unchanged revenue and assets, with expenses and liabilities each $17,950 higher and net assets $17,950 lower. The chronology is established for these two versions; both remain available.
Next evidence: A specific amendment explanation, underlying accounting records and any later amendment history. The acquired Schedules O contain no explicit narrative explaining the $17,950 revision. Do not sum versions or treat an accounting revision as missing money.
Our Revolution — 2023 IRS Form 990 (object 202433209349326438) · Our Revolution — 2023 IRS Form 990 (object 202413529349300906) · Our Revolution CY2023 Schedule O, submitted 2024-11-15 · Our Revolution CY2023 Schedule O, submitted 2024-12-17
The displayed 2006 Senate committee source itself contains mismatching contribution components; several other summaries differ in cash reconciliation or small reported components. Exact values and arithmetic differences are preserved.
Next evidence: Report-level reconciliation including amendments, reporting-period changes, transfers, refunds and FEC aggregation methodology. No inference of misconduct follows from the displayed discrepancy alone.
FEC: SANDERS FOR SENATE — 2006 cycle · FEC: FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS — 2020 cycle · FEC: SANDERS FOR CONGRESS 2004 — 2006 cycle
The collection includes 99 agency-calculated institutional independent-expenditure aggregates for the exact 2015–2016 and 2019–2020 periods, plus the MUR 7038 disposition. These are processed aggregates, not a complete amendment-deduplicated Schedule E transaction history or campaign receipts.
Next evidence: A cycle-bounded Schedule E import keyed to candidate IDs P60007168 and S4VT00033, deduplicated by filing and amendment chains. Preserve support/opposition, exact coverage periods and separation from campaign receipts; do not add underlying transactions to their aggregate totals.
FEC candidate P60007168 — independent expenditures, 2015–2016 · FEC candidate P60007168 — independent expenditures, 2019–2020 · FEC MUR 7038 — case and disposition
The 2016–2018 returns disclose book-related gross receipts and net profit. The 2018 schedules name Macmillan and Verso, while the earlier book schedules do not identify each payer or contract.
Next evidence: Lawfully available publishing agreements, advance and royalty statements, and reliable book-specific payment records; distinguish Bernard from Jane, gross from net, and advances from sales royalties. No hidden investor or policy-payment relationship is established by these returns.
Sanders 2016 joint tax return — archived public release · Sanders 2017 joint tax return — archived public release · Sanders 2018 joint tax return — archived public release
Selected contributor-side records have been supplemented by original Bernie 2020 receipts: NUHW agrees on committee ID and amount, while Blue America agrees on name and amount but its receipt has no contributor committee ID. A nurses-related receipt has a different committee ID from the potential contributor counterpart, and selected 2016 counterparts remain unlocated. These partial matches do not establish net retained backing after every amendment or refund.
Next evidence: Remaining counterpart Schedule A records, complete amendment/refund histories and election designations. Resolve the nurses committee-ID conflict before matching identities, and preserve the distinction between a failed search and a missing or concealed receipt.
FEC committee-to-candidate bulk records — 2016 cycle · FEC committee-to-candidate bulk records — 2020 cycle · FEC processed Bernie 2020 receipts · NUHW and Blue America · Bernie 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1391404 · National Nurses United PAC - A Fund for a Healthy America · original FEC electronic filing 1388090 · NUHW · original FEC electronic filing 1046472 · AFT Guild Local 1931 · original FEC electronic filing 1017201 · AFT Guild Local 1931 · original FEC electronic filing 1041641 · Bernie 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1367132 · Bernie 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1402435
The agency’s aggregates establish spender, direction and amount. They do not identify each spender’s funding origin or a route to a specific policy.
Next evidence: Separate source-linked committee receipts and, when applicable, public nonprofit grant records. Avoid employer inference from employees’ gifts; no private donor identity lists.
FEC candidate P60007168 — independent expenditures, 2015–2016 · FEC candidate P60007168 — independent expenditures, 2019–2020
The ten selected schedules provide exact recipient EINs, amounts, grantor tax periods, and stated purposes. They generally do not provide transaction-level payment dates or ultimate expenditure records.
Next evidence: Public grant agreements, annual reports, recipient reconciliations, or other voluntarily released documents establishing payment dates, restrictions, and outcomes. No inference of diversion is supported by an absent public reconciliation.
Sierra Club Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2024-12-31 · ImpactAssets Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2024-12-31 · Friends of the Earth Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2024-06-30 · National Nurses United Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2019-06-30 · Sixteen Thirty Fund Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2017-12-31 · Free Speech for People Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2022-12-31 · Oil and Gas Action Network Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2022-12-31 · Public Citizen Foundation Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2022-09-30 · Bold Alliance Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2023-12-31 · Bold Education Fund Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2023-12-31
The 2024 Schedule I lists ImpactAssets Inc as grantor of $50,000 to the Sanders Institute. It does not identify an underlying donor for that entry.
Next evidence: An attributable public disclosure by the grantor or donor tying a named institutional funding source to this specific grant; no inference from investments, shared personnel, or general donor lists.
ImpactAssets Inc Form 990 grant schedule · period ending 2024-12-31
The three 2023 campaign disbursements total $275,000. The Institute return reports $228,351 in annual revenue, uses accrual accounting (Part XII, line 1), and reports $200,000 in beginning-of-year accounts receivable (Part X, line 4). It does not identify the payer of those receivables. These reported amounts cannot be compared as if they were the same cash measure.
Next evidence: Recipient accounting entries, revenue-recognition dates, restricted-gift terms, treatment of prior receivables and amendment history. The $46,649 arithmetic difference is not evidence of missing money. The return documents a possible timing explanation, but does not establish that any particular campaign payment settled an opening receivable.
FEC processed disbursements to Sanders Institute · 2021–2026 query · Sanders Institute — 2023 IRS Form 990 (object 202423209349327217)
The original campaign receipt contains C00490375; the separately reviewed $5,000 contributor entry contains C00446237. Similar amount and timing do not establish a match.
Next evidence: An explicit corrected filing, amendment chain or lawful instrument-level reconciliation establishing the sender. Do not substitute one committee identity for the other.
Bernie 2020 · original FEC electronic filing 1391404 · National Nurses United PAC - A Fund for a Healthy America · original FEC electronic filing 1388090
Original contributor filings corroborate the earlier $5,000 NUHW and $2,700 AFT Guild amounts. Bounded recipient-name and committee-ID searches did not locate corresponding Bernie 2016 receipt entries; selected refund searches also returned no rows.
Next evidence: The complete recipient amendment history, name variants, uncashed/returned-check treatment and any later adjustments. A failed search does not establish that the campaign concealed or retained funds.
NUHW · original FEC electronic filing 1046472 · AFT Guild Local 1931 · original FEC electronic filing 1017201 · AFT Guild Local 1931 · original FEC electronic filing 1041641
The annual disclosure reports $200,000 from Penguin Random House LLC and separately lists a July 2025 Fighting Oligarchy agreement. The report gives no allocation and does not identify buyers.
Next evidence: Any voluntarily public contract, royalty statement or later tax-return schedule that actually supplies a breakdown. Do not infer one from matching publisher names or dates.
Annual Report for Calendar 2025: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD)
The campaign names Penguin Random House and the purpose Campaign Literature. Crown announced Fight Oligarchy digital editions for September 30, 2025 and paperback for October 21, 2025. Timing and shared publisher alone do not identify the purchased titles. A bounded statement search found no attributable current campaign-order royalty waiver, return or retention statement.
Next evidence: Order-specific title/ISBN, quantities, invoices and any publisher/author/campaign statement or accounting identifying applicable royalty treatment. General annual author-income disclosures do not attribute income to these orders.
FRIENDS OF BERNIE SANDERS · original FEC electronic filing 1941858 · Crown announces Fight Oligarchy publication formats and dates · Prior reporting on Sanders book income and historical publisher purchases · FEC processed publisher-recipient query and 23-row official export
Original filing 1965001 reports distinct transactions 500207942 and 500207943, each $14,146.66, both memo-coded X, both on February 6, 2026, both referencing American Express transaction 500207798. This is not duplication introduced by the public export.
Next evidence: Invoice or card-statement detail, or a later explanatory/corrective filing. Until then preserve both source entries and label any arithmetic an as-reported entry sum, not independently verified purchases.
Friends of Bernie Sanders: FEC filing 1965001 (Q1) · FEC processed publisher-recipient query and 23-row official export
The selected processed disbursement query has no negative publisher rows. A separate processed receipts query for source names Penguin and Random returned zero matches across 2023–2026. Selected original filings also contained no matching institutional Schedule A receipt rows.
Next evidence: Complete invoice/card-credit reconciliation and any later or differently named receipt entries. The bounded query does not establish zero refunds, nor a net-spend amount.
FEC processed publisher-recipient query and 23-row official export · FEC processed receipts: Penguin/Random source-name query
FLI’s own May 12, 2026 page lists a $200,000 recommendation for PauseAI US. No payment date or recipient EIN appears on that page.
Next evidence: A publicly available grant agreement, grantmaker payment schedule, or attributable recipient confirmation establishing recipient, disbursement dates, amount and conditions. Do not treat a recommendation as payment while those records are absent.
PauseAI US grant recommendation · PauseAI US privacy notice: legal identity
The Bundestag registration explicitly links Control AI US Inc. to the ControlAI website and CEO. US lobbying filings identify a reported relationship with the named UK entity and contribution fields. These establish the brand-to-US-legal-name connection, but neither registration supplies the US EIN. UK accounts do not identify upstream donors, and no paid upstream institutional grant was established by this bounded review.
Next evidence: An original grantor award/payment record or recipient financial filing naming the exact legal recipient, with date, currency, purpose and payment status. The US underlying tax return and a source expressly joining its EIN to these registrations remain unacquired.
Control AI US, Inc. self-registration · Control AI US Inc., Bundestag lobby-register entry R007795 version 3 · ControlAI parliamentary outreach funding application · Secure Future Research Ltd CY2025 accounts · Control Ai Us Inc: IRS-derived entity index
The Senate annual reports one trustee role. The acquired 2024 returns report nonprofit governing-body counts and answers to specified tax-related-entity questions.
Next evidence: Lawfully accessible trust or corporate governing instruments, exact entity identifiers, relevant voting-right provisions and dated records tied to the named entity. Do not infer property ownership from a trustee title or match private residences by name.
Annual Report for Calendar 2025: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD) · Sanders Institute — 2024 IRS Form 990 (object 202523219349323472) · Our Revolution — 2024 IRS Form 990 (object 202513219349304671)
The selected tax returns identify historical grants and broad purpose labels. They do not identify a 2026 policy earmark, a PauseAI payment or a Sanders-related transfer. FLI's May 2026 page states an amount recommended, not payment.
Next evidence: An exact grant agreement, recipient accounting or attributable institutional statement linking a specified award to a defined use and period. Do not infer earmarks, ultimate-donor policy preferences or money reaching Sanders from organizational proximity.
Musk 2021: selected grant to Future of Life Institute · Svcf 2019: selected grant to Future of Life Institute · Svcf 2020: selected grant to Future of Life Institute · Leaves 2023 A: selected grant to Future of Life Institute · Leaves 2024: selected grant to Future of Life Institute · PauseAI US grant recommendation
Professional links are public, the UK legal entities are distinct, and Conjecture reports financing within its own group. The selected financial notes do not identify ControlAI as a recipient and invoke a related-party disclosure exemption.
Next evidence: A source identifying the exact legal payer/payee, date, amount/currency, purpose and whether the entry is cash, an accrual, a grant or another transaction. Current ownership/compensation and any direct Sanders connection require their own evidence.
ControlAI description of UK and US organizational forms · Conjecture Ltd 13966466 annual accounts to December 31, 2024 · ControlAI 15088415 significant-control register · Conjecture Ltd 13966466 significant-control register
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