{"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":"mur-7035","category":"oversight","title":"MUR 7035 · prohibited in-kind contribution settlement","date":"2018-02-12","period":"2015 activity; settlement accepted February 12, 2018","status":"Civil conciliation; closed","summary":"Bernie 2016 agreed to a $14,500 civil penalty over $24,422 in Australian Labor Party-funded flights and stipends for campaign delegates. The agreement preserves the committee’s non-admission of liability.","facts":[{"label":"Committee penalty","value":"$14,500"},{"label":"In-kind contribution at issue","value":"$24,422"},{"label":"Flights funded by ALP","value":"$16,140"},{"label":"Stipends funded by ALP","value":"$8,282"},{"label":"Commission acceptance vote","value":"5–0"},{"label":"Separate ALP penalty","value":"$14,500"},{"label":"Resolution","value":"Pre-probable-cause conciliation; cease-and-desist commitment; file closed"}],"limitations":["The committee agreed not to contest the Commission finding, without admitting liability, to settle. It contended staff believed the work was exempt volunteer activity and did not request the travel or stipend funding.","The ALP penalty belongs to a different respondent. Do not report the combined $29,000 as the Bernie 2016 penalty.","This civil campaign-finance case is not a criminal conviction or a finding that Sanders personally received the money."],"sourceIds":["src-mur-7035","src-mur-7035-agreement","src-mur-7035-alp"],"tags":["FEC","conciliation","foreign contribution","Bernie 2016"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-mur-7035","title":"FEC MUR 7035 — case and disposition","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/matter-under-review/7035/","documentDate":null,"kind":"official-record","locator":"Summary, Disposition, and dated Certifications sections.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"},{"id":"src-mur-7035-agreement","title":"MUR 7035 — Bernie 2016 signed conciliation agreement","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7035/18044437388.pdf","documentDate":"2018-02-15","kind":"official-record","locator":"Cover letter; agreement IV.3–7, V and VI.","sha256":"88ae8f7fec64fef61af8bddb7087f774a8bfddb2bf2921e4800efba3a675cf9e","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"},{"id":"src-mur-7035-alp","title":"MUR 7035 — Australian Labor Party separate conciliation agreement","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7035/18044437382.pdf","documentDate":"2018-02-15","kind":"official-record","locator":"Separate respondent agreement.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}