{"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":"sanders-entity-control-ourrev-bec-2017","category":"organizations","title":"Our Revolution disclosed an email-compromise loss","date":"2017-12-31","period":"December 2016 incident; discovered January 2017; disclosed in CY2017 return submitted November 9, 2018","status":"Organization-reported victimization; historical disclosure","summary":"Our Revolution’s 2017 Schedule O reports that it lost approximately $242,000 in a business-email-compromise scam, discovered in January 2017. It says recovery efforts involving the FBI, counsel and an independent cybersecurity consultant were unsuccessful at the time of reporting.","facts":[{"label":"Organization","value":"Our Revolution"},{"label":"EIN","value":"81-3260391"},{"label":"Loss reported by organization","value":"Approximately $242,000","note":"Estimate in Schedule O, Part VI line 5; not an exact audited loss amount."},{"label":"Incident date as reported","value":"December 2016"},{"label":"Discovery date as reported","value":"January 2017"},{"label":"Recovery status as reported","value":"Efforts unsuccessful as of the filing narrative","note":"No later recovery status independently established."},{"label":"Safeguards as reported","value":"Additional technical and human security measures, procedures and protocols"},{"label":"Separate reported grant to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe","value":"$242,924","note":"Schedule I Part II row (7), stated purpose ENVIRONMENTAL EVENT; this is a separate grant amount, not the loss estimate."},{"label":"Grant recipient EIN as reported","value":"45-0220519"},{"label":"Prior public reporting","value":"November 29, 2018"}],"limitations":["The source describes the organization as the victim; it does not identify Sanders or an officer as diverting funds.","IRS instructions allow outsider theft to trigger the significant-diversion question. That tax label is not an insider-fraud finding.","No FBI case file, court finding, bank-transfer evidence or independent incident investigation was acquired.","The separately reported Standing Rock grant does not by itself prove the precise relationship to the stolen funds, the source of replacement funds or a dollar-for-dollar remediation sequence.","This is a previously reported historical incident, not a new secret discovery or evidence of present misconduct."],"sourceIds":["src-entity-control-ourrev-2017-o","src-entity-control-ourrev-2017-i","src-entity-control-irs-2017-instructions","src-entity-control-prior-reporting-2018"],"tags":["entity-control","public-records","Our Revolution","cybersecurity","historical disclosure"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-entity-control-ourrev-2017-o","title":"Our Revolution CY2017 Schedule O: reported email-compromise loss","publisher":"IRS filing via ProPublica","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/201813139349301631/IRS990ScheduleO","documentDate":"2018-11-09","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"primary-filing-mirror","locator":"Object 201813139349301631; Form 990 Part VI line 5 explanation","sha256":"6f72e55627744306cbd200a8091ec1e84f95481f8bc980d762b3f0836c94f341","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"The organization reports being the victim. Source date is submission, not the December 2016 incident or January 2017 discovery. No FBI investigative file or bank records acquired. Original response processed in memory; privacy-minimized derivative retained."},{"id":"src-entity-control-ourrev-2017-i","title":"Our Revolution CY2017 Schedule I: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe grant","publisher":"IRS filing via ProPublica","url":"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/full_text/201813139349301631/IRS990ScheduleI","documentDate":"2018-11-09","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"primary-filing-mirror","locator":"Object 201813139349301631; Part II row (7), columns (b), (d), (h)","sha256":"b3e9d3fd7b4047f556c701225b9fe07d55dec41d13d6d339e36dab0644993f09","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"A distinct tax-reported grant; not the loss amount. Recipient EIN retained; address omitted. Exact payment date and replacement-fund sequence are not established. Original response processed in memory; privacy-minimized derivative retained."},{"id":"src-entity-control-irs-2017-instructions","title":"2017 Form 990 instructions: significant diversion","publisher":"Internal Revenue Service","url":"https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i990--2017.pdf","documentDate":"2018-01-18","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"official filing instructions","locator":"Printed page 21; Part VI line 5","sha256":"62eab0ccf6c24d87b11793c41bcbb397b62c413a3303e5581906af14f34b2cfa","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"The instructions include outsider theft within significant diversion and instruct filers not to name persons alleged to have diverted assets. Original response processed in memory; privacy-minimized derivative retained."},{"id":"src-entity-control-prior-reporting-2018","title":"2018 reporting on the Our Revolution email scam","publisher":"Common Dreams","url":"https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/29/hackers-stole-nearly-quarter-million-dollars-our-revolution-raised-standing-rock","documentDate":"2018-11-29","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"contemporaneous news report","locator":"Headline and publication date","sha256":"2f6c5efcfbb0b4d64fecf337ee9cc58c42dbf17dcd3e9deb53f324a4bfde1451","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Used only to establish prior reporting and prevent an exclusive-discovery claim. The nonprofit filing supports the primary financial statement. Original response processed in memory; privacy-minimized derivative retained."}]}