{"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-7587","category":"oversight","title":"MUR 7587 · campaign decision-making settlement","date":"2022-08-08","period":"2015 and 2019 activity; settlement accepted August 8, 2022","status":"Civil conciliation; closed","summary":"Sanders and the 2016 and 2020 committees settled for a single $15,000 civil penalty concerning three DACA staff advisers’ participation in election-related decision-making.","facts":[{"label":"Joint civil penalty","value":"$15,000"},{"label":"Commission acceptance vote","value":"4–1"},{"label":"Employees discussed","value":"3"},{"label":"Respondents","value":"Bernard Sanders, Bernie 2016, Bernie 2020, and their treasurers in official capacities"},{"label":"Acknowledged violation in this matter","value":"52 USC 30121(a)(2); 11 CFR 110.20(g) and (i)"},{"label":"Individual employees’ allegations","value":"Dismissed; separate $35 contribution allegation dismissed with admonishment"}],"limitations":["DACA allowed the employees to be lawfully present, but did not make them citizens or lawful permanent residents under the election-law definition. This is not evidence of foreign-government direction or funding.","Respondents admitted the specified violation in this matter. The agreement’s non-admission language applies to other proceedings; it must not be rewritten as a blanket denial or non-admission here.","The $15,000 is one joint settlement amount, not a separate penalty per respondent. The earlier $62,000 opening settlement offer was not the final penalty.","Civil conciliation is not a criminal conviction."],"sourceIds":["src-mur-7587","src-mur-7587-agreement"],"tags":["FEC","conciliation","campaign staffing","Bernie 2016","Bernie 2020"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-mur-7587","title":"FEC MUR 7587 — case and disposition","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/legal/matter-under-review/7587/","documentDate":null,"kind":"official-record","locator":"Summary, Disposition, and dated Certifications sections.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"},{"id":"src-mur-7587-agreement","title":"MUR 7587 — signed conciliation agreement","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7587/7587_29.pdf","documentDate":"2022-08-09","kind":"official-record","locator":"Cover letter; agreement IV.4–6 and 11–14, V, VI.","sha256":"b4f449ba52472fb3683979e1074886220b27f74829cd6efe52c6b58dd148d18a","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}