{"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":"r2-fec-recipient-national-nurses-2020","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Bernie 2020 reported a National Nurses receipt with an unresolved counterpart","date":"2020-02-29","period":"2020-02-18 to 2020-02-29; separate filer-reported dates","status":"Original receipt verified; counterpart identity not resolved","summary":"Bernie 2020’s original filing reports a $5,000 February 29 receipt under the name “National Nurses Up” and committee ID C00490375. 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The mismatch is not attributed merely to the website’s displayed name.","Similar names, the same amount and nearby dates do not prove a match. Do not merge C00446237 and C00490375, characterize a reporting error as established, or infer a prohibited contribution from this comparison.","The receipt and contributor-side report must remain distinct evidence with an unresolved relationship. Amendment history, corrected identifiers or instrument-level documentation would be needed to settle the match.","This is not an independent-expenditure record, a determination of net retained funding, or evidence of policy influence or wrongdoing."],"sourceIds":["src-r2-fec-nnu-recipient-2020","src-r2-fec-file-1391404","src-r2-fec-file-1388090"],"tags":["FEC","recipient-side report","direct contribution","unresolved counterpart","National Nurses","2020"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-r2-fec-nnu-recipient-2020","title":"FEC processed Bernie 2020 receipts · National Nurses name search","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/?data_type=processed&committee_id=C00696948&contributor_name=NATIONAL%20NURSES&two_year_transaction_period=2020","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"official_processed_data_export","locator":"Normal public FEC processed-table CSV export, 1 selected organization rows; source bytes hashed at retrieval. 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