Posted on 08/10/2023 8:18:34 AM PDT by bitt
Democratic-Socialist Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders apparently moved $200,000 from his campaign into the non-profit institute that employs his wife and son.
Sanders frequently demands that the rich ‘pay their fair share’ and rants against the capitalist system, but has done extremely well for himself financially in the process.
The is report also raises questions about what the non-profit in question actually does.
From FOX News:
Bernie Sanders funneled $200K in campaign cash to wife and stepson’s nonprofit institute, records reveal
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders quietly funneled $200,000 from his campaign’s coffers to his wife’s nonprofit institute, which appears to do very little work and pays six figures’ worth of compensation to her son, Fox News Digital has found.
The independent senator’s committee cut two $100,000 checks to the Sanders Institute for reported charitable contributions in January and March, its Federal Election Commission records show. The expenditures are the largest from the Sanders campaign to any entity this election cycle.
The senator’s wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, and stepson, David Driscoll, co-established the Sanders Institute in 2017 to act as a think tank to promote progressive voices, The Washington Post wrote at its launch…
Just two years after its launch, in 2019, the institute announced it would suspend operations as Sen. Sanders sought the Democratic nomination for president to avoid the “appearance of impropriety” and presumably to take away a line of attack from his rivals over its money.
The institute has since quietly resumed operations while seemingly sidestepping media attention. Its latest publicly available tax forms from 2021 show the nonprofit burnt nearly 40% of its donations on salaries while appearing to conduct minimal work and having very few identifiable accomplishments.
Here are a few Twitter reactions to the story:
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Lock him up! ;)
When the quickest, surest and most certain path to extreme riches lies in being a member of the political class and working in government, you know that you do not live in a Republic. You dont even live in a democracy, for that matter. You live under fascism.
Many fail to recognize it because the most dramatic features of fascism in last century are currently below the water-line. When the current majority becomes a definite minority - the replacement program becomes largely completed - then you will see those features rise up and be as plain as day.
campaign donations are now candidates’ slush funds???
It was a known fact that he used his wife and her family as media consultants for all his campaigns and paid them millions over the years
Seems so, at least for dems.
See also Stacy Abrams, flat broke when running for gov of Ga. Now worth many millions, yet has not had a job the whole time.
Poor old Bern, he just never sets his sights high enough and settles for chump change. Maybe Joe could give him some lessons on how it’s REALLY done.
Impossible.
He has a protective (DC)* after his name.
*Democrat Communist...
“a known fact”
True. Remember the outcome? Heads rolled, people went to prison, the guilty were held to account, and freedom was secured.
please take me off your ping list
“Effective altruism” is what Sam Bankman Fried called it.
Robin Hood corruption is another excuse.
I hear Bernie is pissed that his fellow marxist and current head of the Biden crime family has 4 luxurious houses and he only has 3.
This is how they do it.... And it’s legal.
Congress...
where people spend millions to get a job that pays “thousands”
He’s been taking lessons from the Biden Crime Family.
Didn’t need another house on the lake, so took the $200k instead
TERM LIMITS!!!!!!!!!!
The socialist has 3 homes and expensive cars and millions in the bank.
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