Penguin Random House: $44,999.86 direct payment (2025-11-14)
Period or event: 2025-11-14; filing 1941858, YE · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record r3-book-prh-500205950
Friends of Bernie Sanders reported $44,999.86 as a nonmemo operating-expenditure payment to Penguin Random House. The filing describes the purpose as Campaign Literature.
What the source records
Committee
Friends of Bernie Sanders (C00411330)
Vendor
Penguin Random House
Reported direct disbursement
$44,999.86
Reported date
2025-11-14Nonmemo Schedule B disbursement date.
Reported purpose
Campaign Literature
Form and line
Schedule B, Form 3, Line 17 (operating expenditures)
A report by the committee is evidence of what it disclosed; it is not an invoice or an independent bank reconciliation.
The stated purpose is Campaign Literature. No title, ISBN, unit count, unit price, contract or purchase-specific royalty allocation is identified.
A publisher vendor entry does not establish payment to Sanders personally, royalty retention, improper personal use or wrongdoing.
This selected packet covers Friends of Bernie Sanders (C00411330) and the stated recipient search, not every Sanders-related committee or every possible book vendor.
Federal Election Commission; filer-submitted original report · original electronic filing · Checked 2026-09-12
FEC file 1941858; selected Schedule A or B organization rows keyed by transaction ID. Exact transaction locators appear in the record facts.
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Federal Election Commission · Processed Schedule B search/export · Checked 2026-09-12
C00411330; 2024 and 2026 two-year periods; ten recipient-name terms; 23 matching rows, all Penguin Random House.
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