{"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":"r3-book-prh-memos-2023-2024","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Penguin Random House: selected 2023–2024 vendor memos","date":"2024-07-15","period":"Vendor dates July 6, 2023–July 15, 2024; query periods 2023–2024","status":"Verified source memo entries","summary":"Twelve Penguin Random House vendor memos appear beneath American Express operating-expenditure payments. The amounts describe selected vendor activity and must not be added again to the parent card payments.","facts":[{"label":"Committee","value":"Friends of Bernie Sanders (C00411330)"},{"label":"Vendor","value":"Penguin Random House"},{"label":"Selected memo entry count","value":"12"},{"label":"Selected 2023 memo amounts, as reported","value":"$58,871.40","note":"Six memo entries. Not additional cash outflows on top of American Express payments."},{"label":"Selected 2024 memo amounts, as reported","value":"$135,179.52","note":"Six memo entries. Amended 2024 Q2 filing replaces the predecessor for counting."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-07-06","value":"$3,745.00","note":"Transaction 500195200; file 1731053; parent American Express transaction 500195038; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202310159597934965."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-08-23","value":"$7,190.40","note":"Transaction 500195435; file 1731053; parent American Express transaction 500195366; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202310159597935007."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-10-17","value":"$11,984.00","note":"Transaction 500195834; file 1749943; parent American Express transaction 500195794; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202401319600847241."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-10-24","value":"$5,992.00","note":"Transaction 500196028; file 1749943; parent American Express transaction 500195977; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202401319600847262."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-11-29","value":"$17,976.00","note":"Transaction 500196349; file 1749943; parent American Express transaction 500196100; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202401319600847278."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2023-12-26","value":"$11,984.00","note":"Transaction 500196265; file 1749943; parent American Express transaction 500196231; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202401319600847292."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-03-22","value":"$30,019.92","note":"Transaction 500196958; file 1775247; parent American Express transaction 500196866; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202404159632716142."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-04-10","value":"$17,976.00","note":"Transaction 500197367; file 1859508; parent American Express transaction 500197327; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202412099739760795."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-04-12","value":"$12,043.92","note":"Transaction 500197042; file 1859508; parent American Express transaction 500197041; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202412099739760763."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-05-06","value":"$33,190.18","note":"Transaction 500197368; file 1859508; parent American Express transaction 500197327; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202412099739760796."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-06-09","value":"$4,379.66","note":"Transaction 500197709; file 1859508; parent American Express transaction 500197554; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202412099739760833."},{"label":"Vendor memo 2024-07-15","value":"$37,569.84","note":"Transaction 500198163; file 1807451; parent American Express transaction 500197884; memo X; purpose Campaign Literature; image 202408019666037393."}],"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.","All twelve selected rows are memo-coded X; no ordinary direct Penguin Random House disbursement appears among these selected rows.","The four 2024 Q2 vendor memos are identical in amended filing 1859508 and original filing 1800278. Only the amended version is counted."],"sourceIds":["src-r3-book-fec-1731053","src-r3-book-fec-1749943","src-r3-book-fec-1775247","src-r3-book-fec-1800278","src-r3-book-fec-1807451","src-r3-book-fec-1859508","src-r3-book-fec-field-guide","src-r3-book-fec-memo-guidance","src-r3-book-fec-query"],"tags":["books","publisher","Penguin Random House","American Express","memo entries","2023","2024"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-r3-book-fec-1731053","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders: FEC filing 1731053 (Q3)","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/1731053.fec","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Original FEC electronic filing","locator":"F3N; coverage 20230701–20230930; selected Penguin Random House SB17 entries and associated American Express parent entries; exact transaction identifiers appear in records.","sha256":"ca472cfeb37bcb50e4dd8d679772843d7f234182e4245d0bf90927a214296ea5","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original 5,242,628-byte filing hashed in memory. Full filing not retained; selected institution-only extract stored in research packet. Header amendment reference: none."},{"id":"src-r3-book-fec-1749943","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders: FEC filing 1749943 (YE)","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/1749943.fec","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Original FEC electronic filing","locator":"F3N; coverage 20231001–20231231; selected Penguin Random House SB17 entries and associated American Express parent entries; exact transaction identifiers appear in records.","sha256":"6145acedb89afa89c02236e3498ebb1e1be9d80caf6da1e6c3eb19970c914d15","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original 10,585,800-byte filing hashed in memory. Full filing not retained; selected institution-only extract stored in research packet. Header amendment reference: none."},{"id":"src-r3-book-fec-1775247","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders: FEC filing 1775247 (Q1)","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/1775247.fec","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Original FEC electronic filing","locator":"F3N; coverage 20240101–20240331; selected Penguin Random House SB17 entries and associated American Express parent entries; exact transaction identifiers appear in records.","sha256":"33033547169f07c7eb00c2eb82e3e5956f330a3e006f4eb5cc646431b8a691b1","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original 11,422,241-byte filing hashed in memory. Full filing not retained; selected institution-only extract stored in research packet. Header amendment reference: none."},{"id":"src-r3-book-fec-1800278","title":"Friends of Bernie Sanders: FEC filing 1800278 (Q2)","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://docquery.fec.gov/dcdev/posted/1800278.fec","documentDate":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Original FEC electronic filing","locator":"F3N; coverage 20240401–20240630; selected Penguin Random House SB17 entries and associated American Express parent entries; exact transaction identifiers appear in records.","sha256":"16889fea734ec6c90d78de32f54d38700b24524b187abc9588249c31eae29cbb","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original 12,060,448-byte filing hashed in memory. Full filing not retained; selected institution-only extract stored in research packet. 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