{"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-2025-royalties","category":"personal-finance","title":"2025 reported publishing income","date":"2026-08-13","period":"Calendar 2025","status":"Official document reviewed","summary":"Sanders reported $200,000 in royalties from Penguin Random House LLC.","facts":[{"label":"Reported royalties","value":"$200,000","note":"Part 2, row 2"},{"label":"Recipient scope","value":"Self"},{"label":"Publisher","value":"Penguin Random House LLC"}],"limitations":["Calendar 2025 disclosure filed August 13, 2026; it describes reportable 2025 activity, not current 2026 balances or a complete income-tax return.","The filing is the source’s own disclosure, not independent confirmation of every underlying payment or balance.","The payment is not divided among titles, advances, earned-out royalties, territories or units sold. It is not a net publishing-profit figure.","The Fighting Oligarchy agreement newly listed in this annual report in Part 9 does not allocate this payment to that title. Publishing income alone does not establish a campaign contribution, purchaser identity or policy influence."],"sourceIds":["src-senate-efd-cy2025-81060eb2"],"tags":["publishing","royalties","income"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-senate-efd-cy2025-81060eb2","title":"Annual Report for Calendar 2025: Bernard Sanders (official Senate eFD)","publisher":"United States Senate, Office of Public Records","url":"https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/view/annual/81060eb2-fc35-4a8c-857d-3220cf411b9b/","documentDate":"2026-08-13","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"Official annual financial disclosure, electronically filed HTML","locator":"Report header; Parts1–10; exact row locators supplied in records. Filed 08/13/2026 @ 10:15 AM; timezone not stated.","sha256":"be68449bdac80515e51de2605da00681fac34c8b2f5320bcb6df8398947cc24f","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Acquired through normal public Senate access after truthfully acknowledging statutory use restrictions; no identity, address, login credentials or fabricated certification submitted. Original HTML was processed in memory; privacy-minimized derivative retained with separate hash. Newest annual returned by bounded official search through September 12, 2026."}]}