{"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-2944","category":"oversight","title":"AF 2944 · Progressive Voters of America reporting fine","date":"2015-06-25","period":"2014 30 Day Post-General Report","status":"Final administrative determination","summary":"The FEC assessed a $1,090 civil penalty against Progressive Voters of America and its treasurer in an official capacity for the 2014 30 Day Post-General Report filing violation.","facts":[{"label":"Final penalty","value":"$1,090"},{"label":"Final vote","value":"6–0"},{"label":"Violation","value":"52 USC 30104(a)"},{"label":"Committee","value":"Progressive Voters of America, C00406553"}],"limitations":["This is a committee reporting-compliance determination. It does not establish personal income, bribery, money laundering or a criminal conviction."],"sourceIds":["src-af-2015-digest","src-af-2944-cert"],"tags":["FEC","administrative fine","reporting","leadership PAC"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-af-2015-digest","title":"FEC weekly digest — July 13–17, 2015","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/updates/week-of-july-13-july-17-2015/","documentDate":"2015-07-17","kind":"official-record","locator":"Administrative fines: AF 2921 and AF 2944 final penalty amounts.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"},{"id":"src-af-2944-cert","title":"AF 2944 — final determination certification","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/admin_fines/2942/15092704720.pdf","documentDate":"2015-06-25","kind":"official-record","locator":"Certification pages 23–29; AF 2944 on page 28.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}