{"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-tax-return-2015","category":"personal-finance","title":"2015 joint tax return: income and federal tax","date":"2019-04-15","period":"Tax year 2015","status":"Document verified","summary":"The archived joint return reports $240,622 in total income, $240,610 in adjusted gross income, and $35,868 in total federal tax.","facts":[{"label":"Filing status","value":"Married filing jointly","note":"Bernard and Jane Sanders; Form 1040 filing-status field."},{"label":"Total income","value":"$240,622","note":"Form 1040 line 22, PDF p. 1."},{"label":"Adjusted gross income","value":"$240,610","note":"Form 1040 line 37, PDF p. 1."},{"label":"Total federal tax reported","value":"$35,868","note":"Form 1040 line 63, PDF p. 2. This is the return’s total tax, not the withholding, estimated payments, refund, or balance due."},{"label":"AGI reconciliation","value":"$240,622 − $12 = $240,610","note":"Form 1040 lines 22, 36 and 37; total income and AGI must not be interchanged."},{"label":"Business net income reported","value":"$900","note":"Form 1040 line 12; Schedule C-EZ, PDF p. 4, describes VEDA Commissioner service, not book publishing."}],"limitations":["Joint-return income includes both spouses and is not Sanders-only income, campaign receipts, or net worth.","Archived voluntary release; not an IRS-certified transcript. It does not establish IRS acceptance, later amendments, or settlement of the reported tax.","Amounts are transcribed from the returned form; no tax-law compliance opinion is made.","Some contemporary summaries use $240,622 as AGI; the archived form labels that total income and reports AGI of $240,610."],"sourceIds":["PF-TAX-2015"],"tags":["tax-return","joint-filing","income","federal-tax","2015"]},"sources":[{"id":"PF-TAX-2015","title":"Sanders 2015 joint tax return — archived public release","publisher":"Internet Archive, preserving the BuzzFeed / Ruby Cramer DocumentCloud copy","url":"https://archive.org/download/5912461-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2015/5912461-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2015.pdf","documentDate":"2019-04-15","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"voluntarily_released_primary_document_archive","locator":"PDF pp. 1–2, Form 1040 lines 22, 37 and 63; visually checked PDF pages 1, 2, 4","sha256":"fb63489cf89e3f189e25810b0999fa259dc04b9311cae37a987366f894373055","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"10-page public-release file; original file MD5 matches Internet Archive metadata. Metadata dates the source document to 2019-04-15 and archive acquisition to 2019-11-14 11:03:53; the document date is the release date, not the tax year. Original source recorded by the archive: http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5912461-Sanders-IRS-Filing-2015.html. This is not an IRS-certified transcript."}]}