{"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-finance-2014-income","category":"personal-finance","title":"2014 joint tax return: income","date":"2016-04-15","period":"Tax year 2014","status":"Document verified","summary":"The released return reports $205,617 in total income and $205,271 in adjusted gross income for the joint filing.","facts":[{"label":"Total income","value":"$205,617","note":"Form 1040, p. 1, line 22"},{"label":"Adjusted gross income","value":"$205,271","note":"Form 1040, p. 1, line 37"},{"label":"Taxable wages","value":"$156,441","note":"Form 1040, p. 1, line 7"},{"label":"Business net income","value":"$4,900","note":"Form 1040 line 12; spouse commissioner service on Schedule C, p. 4."},{"label":"Taxable interest / ordinary dividends","value":"$11 / $2","note":"Form 1040, p. 1, lines 8a and 9a"}],"limitations":["Campaign-released joint return archived by UCSB; not an IRS-certified transcript. Later amendments are not ruled out.","Joint-return income is not Sanders-only income, campaign receipts or net worth. Taxable W-2 wages differ from a statutory gross salary rate."],"sourceIds":["PF-S01","PF-S03"],"tags":["tax-return","income","joint-filing"]},"sources":[{"id":"PF-S01","title":"Sanders 2014 federal tax return, campaign release copy","publisher":"The American Presidency Project, University of California Santa Barbara","url":"https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/documents_with_attached_files/318289/117159.pdf","documentDate":"2016-04-15","kind":"voluntarily_released_primary_document_archive","locator":"Form 1040 pp. 1–2; Schedule A p. 3; Schedule C p. 4","sha256":"ff7703a89dd70a3e1bb11cddae13f152cc2010b4197aacbd3128d5d10808d0b2","note":"Archived campaign copy, not an IRS-certified transcript. Later amendments not ruled out.","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"},{"id":"PF-S03","title":"Senate Salaries (1789 to Present)","publisher":"U.S. Senate","url":"https://www.senate.gov/senators/SenateSalariesSince1789.htm","documentDate":null,"kind":"official_reference","locator":"Annual salary table, 2007–2026","sha256":null,"note":"Annual statutory base rate, not Sanders personal payroll, W-2 wages, take-home pay, or accumulated savings.","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}