Comrade Bernie Sanders gave $200K in campaign money to wife, stepson's "nonprofit" institute

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Senator/Comrade Bernie Sanders (Independent Communist-VT) covertly funneled $200,000 from his campaign donations intended to be used for his reelection to his wife's supposedly nonprofit institute. The institute apparently does as much work as Bernie [hardly any] but pays a boatload of greenbacks in compensation to her son, according to Fox News Digital.

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.

Bernie's charming wife and former president of the now defunct Burlington College, Jane O'Meara Sanders, and her handsome son, Dave "The Rave" Driscoll, co-established the Institute in 2017, just one year after Burlington College went under due to financial problems. The Jane-Dave Sanders Instituter was established to promote progressive [read 'communist'] voices, as per the Washington Post when it was launched.

"The purpose is to revitalize democracy in the support of progressive institutions," Jane Sanders told the Post. "Our feeling is at our point in time, our country is at a crossroads, and people are engaged in a political process that can be opaque." And her school went bankrupt due to her mishandling of the money she received for it.

"A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking," she pontificated. "So we put together this team to focus on issues, but not in a partisan way, not in a way that just focuses on the latest crazy thing. It will not be about Trump; it will be about the issues facing the country."

In 2019 the institute claimed it would suspend operations due to Bernie Sanders seeking nomination for president and the appearance of impropriety. And hey, when a communist has that much money in his coffers, it's hard to make a case for equal pay for equal yadda yadda.

But the so called "nonprofit" institute has since covertly restarted operations in the shadows out of media attention. Its 2021 tax forms show that it spent about 40% of its donations on salaries, did even less work than Bernie did at a commune, and had nothing to show for its existence, much like Bernie, Jane and David.

It turns out that David scored the most money in the institute's "operation." In 2021 the institute raised $716,618 and paid out $257,000 in wages, including $152,653 to David, the institutes' so called executive director, which he labels himself as on LinkedIn. Prior to that, he posted that he was global director of team and media for Burton Snowboards, a career that evidently went downhill.

In 2021, the institute also reported spending $159,885 on developing The Timeline Project, which they described as a "policy-focused resource based on Bernie Sanders work over four decades" that would be one of the "key pilars [sic] of the website." Additionally, they pissed away nearly $89,000 for a news website, an identical amount for social media and content creation, and $17,765 for a gathering they had to cancel due to the pandemic.

The money it was supposedly used for its projects was an illusion. Nowhere on its website is a "policy-focused resource" as described for its top program expense.

Despite Jane Sanders' claim that she wanted to support other progressive organizations, the institute did no such thing and reported zero grants to other left wing groups according to its tax records. Worse, the Sanders Institute did not disclose its donors on its tax forms, but the outlet was able to identify its main cash sources from the year of its most recent documents.

A search of FEC records shows that Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign sent $350,000 to the institute in April 2021. A nonprofit called Wend II Inc added $250,000 to build "content capacity" that year, according to their own tax forms. Wend II Inc's director is James M. Walton, the son of James Carr Walton, one of the wealthiest businessmen in the world and an heir to the Walmart fortune.

The two donations accounted for about 84% of the $716,000 the Sanders Institute raked in throughout 2021.

In 2018, VTDigger reported that the think tank had practically nothing to show to justify its existence during its first year, including sparse original content. They also found that much of it was plagiarized from other sources, much like it remains today.

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Jane Sanders feeling the FBI Bern

Jane Sanders, the adorable wife of Sen. Bernie Sander (Communist--VT.), was questioned [again] by the FBI about a week ago regarding possible bank fraud perpetrated by her when she was president of Burlington College, a key witness told Fox News.

This apparently indicates the investigation into the $10 million real estate deal remains open and Jane may go to the joint.

Burlington College, which has since become defunct, was led by Sanders (aka "Calamity Jane Sanders") when the school decided to expand and get its left hand on a tract of land owned by the local Catholic Church parish. Sanders secured a $6.7 million loan from a bank and a $3.6 million loan from the parish from which she hoped to purchase the property.

She was accused of inflating the amount of money donors have pledged to the school and provided false information to a bank to get the loan. So in 2011 she resigned while her husband promised the nation free college education. Many of those listed as college donors have since come forward denying they had pledged any money.

Former head of operations at Burlington College, Coralee Holm, previously told Fox News the probe has "no specific deadline." She was initially questioned by the FBI last summer and was last visited by FBI agents two weeks ago and answered "some clarifying questions." 

A federal grand jury was empaneled last October and heard evidence from another former college official.

Robin Lloyd, a former board member of the college, confirmed that a grand jury was looking into Sanders' possible bank fraud involvement.

"They're trying to pull together where did the money come from to enable Burlington College to convince [People's United Bank] and the diocese to go ahead with the deal," Lloyd told the Burlington Free Press. 

A Sanders family spokesperson said they had "absolutely no reason to believe that there is a grand jury empaneled to examine" Sanders or any "aspect of Dr. Sanders' service." The spokesperson gets paid to say such things and blamed the media for "recycling an account of a government interview of a witness from several months ago."

Bernie Sanders responded to media questions saying: "Oy yam livid with the way yoo people in tha newz attack my paw wife. If you want to know whoze guilty, look at Wawl Schtreet. Look at Trump. Look at the one percent."

He and Jane then got into their limo and drove off to one of their three homes.


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Bernie Sanders' wife's land deal being FBI'd

Bernie and Jane in Philly during DNC
Convention July 2016
Photo: AP

Jane Sanders, wife of socialist Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is still under FBI investigation over possible bank fraud in a land deal she made in 2010 when she was president of Burlington College in Vermont. A potential "grand jury" is possible.

Hopefully the probe will ruin Sanders' chance in the 2020 presidential primaries, but socialists don't care when one of their own commits fraud as this is the basis of their ideology in the first place. Some call it "crony capitalism," but by definition, capitalism is the fair trade between individuals. It should be called "phony corporatism." 

Jane Sanders' daughter, Carina Driscoll has her own political ambitions and her own mommy may have hurt those ambitions--again, hopefully. She is the stepdaughter of Bernie Sanders and wants to run for mayor of Burlington.

Over the past six weeks, one witness involved with the land deal was questioned by the FBI.

Sanders wanted to expand the college and sought to obtain land from a nearby Catholic parish. She got her socialist hands on a $6.7 million loan from a bank and a $3.6 million loan from the parish from which she planned to buy the property. 

However, Jane Sanders resigned in 2011 amid allegations she purposely inflated and made up the amount of money donors have pledged to Burlington College and gave incorrect information to a bank to get the loan, something know in legal circles as fraud.

A number of people she listed as donors, have come forward denying the commitments.

Former Burlington College Board Chairman Yves Bradley was visited by FBI agents in the past six weeks and was asked about Sanders' involvement in the alleged bank fraud. 

Bernie and Jane's lawyer, Rich Cassidy tried to question Mr. Bradley about the investigation, but his own lawyer advised him not to engage. Cassidy did not respond to multiple requests by Fox News for an interview and decided to simply hop along his merry way.

The questioning of Bradley is a clear sign the investigation has a long way to go and is being handled by the U.S. Justice Department. It will proceed at the discretion or whim of Christina Nolan, the U.S. Attorney of Vermont. She is a Trump appointee and was sworn in by the Senate last month.

Coralee Holm, former dean of operations at the school, confirmed to Fox News that the investigation "has not been closed" and has "no specific deadline" for completion.

Taking a page out of the leftist handbook, Jane Sanders blames "sexism" for the allegations.



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Jane Sanders pulls the gender card, of course

The Liberal Playbook, page one, recommends that whenever you're being attacked by the law, you should scream sexism, racism or white privilege, depending upon who the accusers are.

Jane Sanders, wife of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, cried sexism against the man who accused her of bank-fraud. Whether or not she's actually guilty, it's clear that there's enough evidence to go on to involve an FBI investigation into allegations she fraudulently got a loan for Burlington College, in Vermont, where she was president. 

"I find it incredibly sexist that basically he's going after my husband by destroying my reputation, and that's not okay," Jane Sanders told The Boston Globe. 

The investigation started in 2016 when Brady Toensing, a former Trump campaign official and current candidate for U.S. attorney in Vermont, filed a complaint alleging Jane Sanders committed bank fraud.

Therefore, Brady Toensing must be a sexist.

According to the Washington Examiner, Toensing began researching Jane Sanders in 2014, long before "Brookyn Bernie" was to throw his hammer and sickle into the ring for president.

Jane Sanders was president of Burlington College, a liberal arts school, from 2004 to 2011. The school closed last year after struggling to pay back creditors. It eventually lost its accreditation.

"Jane Sanders must think Hillary Clinton's campaign was sexist for viewing the alleged bank fraud as a major issue too," Michael Ahrens, Rapid Response Director for the RNC. 

Remember, in publicly leaked emails for Hillary's campaign in 3025, her team looked into using Jane Sanders' role in the college's failure against then-candidate Bernie Sanders.

So either Hillary Clinton is also a sexist or she's just a damn hypocrite like Jane. 

The opposition research Clinton's team did on Sanders' connection to Burlington College and its eventual financial collapse, show that both parties speculated about her connection to the collapse and inability to manage the school's finances.

"My goal is for a full, fair and impartial investigation--that's all I care about," Toensing told the Globe. "That people be treated the same regardless of status in this system."

Yeah, tell that to the media.


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Jane Sanders land deal probe now seeks grand jury testimony

A federal probe into the allegations that Sen. Bernie Sanders' wife, Jane, fraudulently got a nearly $10 million loan for land expansion at a now bankrupt Vermont college where she was president. Prosecutors are reportedly calling a state official to testify before a grand jury.

The investigation is analyzing Jane Sanders' actions in 2010, when she wsa president of Burlington College and sought a multi-million dollar loan for a new campus on 33 acres along Lake Champlain.

Sanders allegedly told college trustees and bank lenders that the college had millions of dollars in donations that could be used to repay the loan.

Apparently, she lied. The Washington Post, said Monday that trustees discovered many of the donors hadn't actually agreed to the amounts or timing of donations listed in the materials Sanders provided.

The loans requested were $6.5 million from People's United Bank to purchase tax-exempt bonds issued by a state agency. She liked the name "People's United Bank" because it had a nice socialist ring to it.

She also sought a $3.65 million second mortgage from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington.

To get the loan, Ms. Sanders provided a spreadsheet that attempted to show appropriate lenders that the school had $2.4 million in confirmed pledges, grants, and additional funds to repay the loans. 

Unfortunately, the spreadsheet was possibly poppycock.

A complaint about these pledges was initially filed in January 2016 by the law firm of diGenova and Toensing. Brady Toensing, a partner in the firm and former Trump presidential campaign official, wrote the complaint.

Sen. Sanders saw this as an opening to attack. After all, if it had anything to do with Trump, it must be politically motivated. Of course, even if it was politically motivated, that doesn't mean the allegations aren't true.

Toensing, vice chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, made similar allegations last week to those detailed in the most recent Post report.

"In order to get those loans, she had to confirm guaranteed donations of $2.6 million, the school was only able to collect about 25 percent . . . and of the confirmed donations, three of the donors have come forward to say that the school overstated their pledge amounts," Toensing told Fox News' Tucker Carlson on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

It turns out Jane Sanders got a "golden parachute" from the bankrupt school after she initially lawyered up, but it was the Vermont taxpayers and the Catholic Church who were "harmed" in the alleged collection of funding.

The investigation is only on Jane Sanders, not on her socialist senator husband.

Sanders spokesman Jeff Weaver denied the allegations, and confirmed that Jane hired a law firm in the spring to thwart any possibility that President Trump's Justice Department will use the investigation as a way to block Bernie Sanders as a potential 2020 opponent if he doesn't die of old age before then.

Last week, Sen. Sanders unconvincingly told the Crappy News Network (CNN) that his wife was "perhaps the most honest person I know," which can be interpreted to mean that a) perhaps she was or perhaps she wasn't the most honest person he knows; and b) perhaps Bernie doesn't know any honest women.



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Bernie's wife really does, in fact, suck as a person

Senatah Bernie Sandahs' (Idiot--VT) wife has been accused of being a scum -crumpet who heartlessly tried to evict disabled group home residents when she was president of a Vermont college and closed on a real estate deal. She is now under FBI "matter" situation. 

Just kidding--it's an investigation.

The group home had 16 elderly residents was on property Jane Sanders purchased for the now defunct Burlington College in 2010 as part of an expansion project, according to conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch claimed Thursday.

Jane Sanders is under FBI investigation in connection with her role in obtaining a bank loan for the expansion project which didn't work out and led to the college's closure.

Both Bernie and Jane Sanders have lawyered up in connection with the probe. Sen. Sanders called the probe "pretty pathetic," and politically motivated, but that's a lie. Jane Sanders is her claw-prints all over this.

Judicial Watch claims Jane Sanders sent a letter to an attorney representing the HowardCenter group home in January 2011. The letter stated that she was having difficulty evicting the 16 seniors.

Part of the letter Judicial Watch obtained under a public records request stated: 

"It is simply not fair to expect the College to continue to carry the burden of the expenses associated with housing both your population and ours until February 2012."

"The home for the disabled was being leased from the diocese and Jane was supposed to help relocate the residents, not evict them," Judicial Watch reported. 

Sanders' comments demonstrated her heartlessness and the level of suck-worthiness she possesses.

Sen. Sanders office had no comment.



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