Penguin Random House: $14,146.66 vendor memo (2026-02-06)
Period or event: 2026-02-06; filing 1965001, Q1 · Reviewed September 12, 2026 · Record r3-book-prh-500207943
Friends of Bernie Sanders reported $14,146.66 as a Penguin Random House vendor memo beneath an American Express payment. The filing describes the purpose as Campaign Literature.
What the source records
Committee
Friends of Bernie Sanders (C00411330)
Vendor
Penguin Random House
Reported vendor memo amount
$14,146.66
Reported date
2026-02-06Vendor memo date; may differ from the parent card-payment date.
Reported purpose
Campaign Literature
Form and line
Schedule B, Form 3, Line 17 (operating expenditures)
500207798Purpose Credit Card - See Details; parent payment date 20260206. Parent amount intentionally excluded from the vendor subtotal.
Scope & limitations
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.
This memo item is a subitemization of an American Express payment. Counting it again as a separate cash disbursement would double-count the same reported expense.
Original filing 1965001 contains a second $14,146.66 memo on the same date under the same parent: transaction 500207942. Distinct transaction IDs are preserved, but invoices/card statements are needed to determine whether these represent separate orders. Do not silently deduplicate or call the pair two proven purchases.
Federal Election Commission · Original FEC electronic filing · Checked 2026-09-12
F3N; coverage 20260101–20260331; selected Penguin Random House SB17 entries and associated American Express parent entries; exact transaction identifiers appear in records.
Original 14,012,589-byte filing hashed in memory. Full filing not retained; selected institution-only extract stored in research packet. Header amendment reference: none.
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.
Hash is the original 12,272-byte CSV generated by the public FEC UI, not the dynamic HTML page. Institutional fields selected in research packet; original CSV not retained. Expiring export URL not published.