{"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":"fec-ue-disbursement-20230908","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders → United Electrical Workers","date":"2023-09-08","period":"2023 Q3 report","status":"Filed disbursement; original page verified","summary":"Friends of Bernie Sanders reported a $15,695.55 payment to United Electrical Workers, with the purpose “Charitable Donation.”","facts":[{"label":"Payer","value":"Friends of Bernie Sanders, C00411330"},{"label":"Payee","value":"United Electrical Workers"},{"label":"Amount","value":"$15,695.55"},{"label":"Transaction ID","value":"500195591"},{"label":"Purpose as filed","value":"Charitable Donation"},{"label":"FEC image","value":"202310159597935122"}],"limitations":["This is money paid by the campaign to an organization, not money received from that organization and not a payment to Bernie Sanders.","One transaction does not establish the recipient’s ultimate use of funds, personal benefit or a policy exchange. Later amendments and recipient records remain to be reconciled."],"sourceIds":["src-fec-friends-2023-q3-sched-b"],"tags":["FEC","organizational disbursement","United Electrical Workers"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-fec-friends-2023-q3-sched-b","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders — 2023 Q3 Schedule B, page 7873","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/pdf/250/202310159597927250/202310159597927250.pdf#page=7873","documentDate":"2023-10-15","kind":"official-record","locator":"Page 7873 of 7873; image 202310159597935122; Schedule B line 21; transactions 500195456 and 500195591.","sha256":null,"note":"Original page visually checked. Organization mailing addresses excluded from extracted records. A report amendment chain has not yet been reconciled.","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}