{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"af-2022","category":"oversight","title":"AF 2022 · earlier Progressive Voters of America reporting fine","date":"2009-06-01","period":"2008 30 Day Post-General Report; final determination June 1, 2009","status":"Final administrative determination","summary":"The FEC made a final determination against Progressive Voters of America and its treasurer for the 2008 30 Day Post-General Report filing violation. The final assessed civil penalty was $825.","facts":[{"label":"Final penalty","value":"$825"},{"label":"Final Commission vote","value":"6–0"},{"label":"Statute in original determination","value":"2 USC 434(a)","note":"Historical citation preserved; now codified at 52 USC 30104(a)."},{"label":"Committee","value":"Progressive Voters of America, C00406553"},{"label":"Treasurer named in official role","value":"F. Philip Fiermonte"},{"label":"Report","value":"2008 30 Day Post-General Report"},{"label":"Payment status in this bounded packet","value":"Not independently verified","note":"The final determination and digest establish the assessed amount. A search-indexed payment table was not sufficiently verified here to publish a payment date."}],"limitations":["This is a historical committee reporting-compliance determination, newly added to this collection. It is not a newly issued decision.","The named respondents are the committee and its treasurer; the determination does not establish Sanders’s personal knowledge, personal income, bribery, or a criminal conviction.","This $825 case is distinct from the already indexed 2015 AF 2921 and AF 2944 cases. No complete lifetime fine total is asserted.","The final certification is included in a consolidated file hosted under another case number; the selected paragraph explicitly identifies AF 2022. Earlier reason-to-believe pages in the same file are not the final decision."],"sourceIds":["src-r5-af-2022-final-bundle","src-r5-af-2022-digest"],"tags":["FEC","administrative fine","reporting","leadership PAC","historical enforcement"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-r5-af-2022-final-bundle","title":"AF 2022: final determination in consolidated original case file","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/admin_fines/2027/10092650214.pdf","documentDate":"2009-06-01","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"official-enforcement-record","locator":"PDF pages 38–45: June 1, 2009 final certification; AF 2022 on PDF page 42, printed page 5. Earlier preliminary determinations are separate.","sha256":"13275f8c244494726d03dbe47d2b4b747c70b13165f22b6039b40cb5256664d6","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original public response acquired and hashed; selected institutional text retained. Private contacts, bank/check identifiers and unrelated personal details are omitted."},{"id":"src-r5-af-2022-digest","title":"FEC weekly digest: AF 2022 final $825 penalty","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/updates/week-of-july-20-24-2009/","documentDate":"2009-07-24","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"official-enforcement-record","locator":"Administrative fines paragraph for AF 2022 only.","sha256":"81c59b3e392a6c65b8130812d7f94f434d01da39b7e2cdaefbd02bb822a4477b","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original public response acquired and hashed; selected institutional text retained. Private contacts, bank/check identifiers and unrelated personal details are omitted."}]}