{"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-fund-transactions","category":"personal-finance","title":"2025 disclosed spouse fund partial sales","date":"2026-08-13","period":"Calendar 2025","status":"Official document reviewed; calculated ranges","summary":"Part 4b lists four partial sales of spouse fund holdings: three dated March 31 and one dated December 31, 2025.","facts":[{"label":"Reported partial sales","value":"4","note":"Part 4b, rows 1–4"},{"label":"First three reported dates","value":"March 31, 2025","note":"Part 4b, rows 1–3"},{"label":"Fourth reported date","value":"December 31, 2025","note":"Part 4b, row 4"},{"label":"Sum of the four transaction ranges","value":"$18,004–$95,000","note":"Lower and upper endpoints summed separately:3×[$1,001,$15,000]+[$15,001,$50,000]"}],"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.","Reported amounts are transaction bands, not gains, profits, exact sale proceeds, tax liability or the current asset value.","The entries are spouse fund transactions; the report does not establish that Sanders selected or traded individual underlying companies.","Dates alone do not establish a connection to any bill, vote, royalty payment or mortgage refinancing."],"sourceIds":["src-senate-efd-cy2025-81060eb2","PF-S04"],"tags":["transactions","retirement","asset-ranges","derived-calculation"]},"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. 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