Will The Real Bernie Sanders Please Stand Up?

 

Social Media bas been livid these past days over Bernie’s high charges for appearances and the price of his Anti-Capitalism book “It’s OK to be angry about Capitalism.” In truth? This is just the tip of the iceberg for the Sanders clan. Bernie lets his his wife, son and daughter, in typical Washington style, leave part of the grifting to the family.

$28 bucks for the book, $95 for the book and a ticket.

 

Bernie’s new anti-capitalist book:

$28 for the book
$95 for book tour tickets pic.twitter.com/WZFClfANMw

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 26, 2023

While everyone is looking at Joe Biden’s son Hunter, let us take a look at Bernie and Jane Sanders and their kids and how they are raking in the dough.

 

Flashback March 2019:

Sanders Shuts down Institute Over Pay-To-Play Accusations

The senator’s son was reportedly paid about $100,000 last year for his work at the Sanders Institute. The entire organization raised about $730,000 — and another $459,000 in 2017, according to the Sanders family.

Reflecting on accusations of pay-to-play influence-peddling at The Clinton Foundation, Senator Bernie Sanders told CNN in March of 2016 that:

“It is obscene that Secretary Clinton keeps going to big-money people to fund her campaign…”

All of which makes the news, via AP, that the “nonprofit” think tank founded by Sanders’ wife and son is closing up shop after drawing criticism over the donations it’s been receiving all the more intriguing.

The unexpected move by the institute’s board of directors comes as Bernie Sanders, a leading candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination, prepares for a wave of intense scrutiny into his political network and his family’s role in its operation.

The institute was founded to promote liberal policies less than two years ago by Sanders’ family with the backing of pro-Sanders celebrities and advocates – though Sanders himself had no formal role. While it operates at a fraction of the scale of the Clinton Foundation, it has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars during its brief existence and has declined to disclose its donors.

Jane and her son, David Driscoll, founded the Sanders Institute in 2017 under the claim that it would research and promote liberal policies. Instead, people have accused them of using the institute as a way to sell their loyalty to the rich and powerful.

The decision was reportedly made in late February after Sanders launched his campaign.

“I think that was the most important thing to do — to not accept donations,” said Jane Sanders in an interview with the Associated Press.

“Nobody should think that they’re giving money to an organization and that gains them access or favor to anybody elseand anybody running for office.”

You think so? After being under investigation by the FBI?

Jane Sanders told the New York Times that they “didn’t think about the Clinton or Trump foundation” when deciding whether it was right to stop taking donations.

 

Sources  Zero Hedge and the New York Post

Then we have Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

How did Jane Sanders funnel more than 500k to her daughter’s for-profit woodworking business during her tenure as President of Burlington College and get away with it?

What hasn’t been discussed in all the noise about Burlington College’s closure is how Jane Sanders (supported by the same Board of Trustees who approved the land sale) openly funneled hundreds of thousands of dollars from Burlington College’s operating funds to VT Woodworking School — a for-profit business started by her daughter Carina Driscoll in 2007.

Despite scattered reporting on this story, Jane Sanders has never been asked to explain why Burlington College suddenly needed to start a woodworking program in 2009 – the very same year the VT Woodworking School expanded to its current site in Fairfax, VT taking on considerable expense of a new building and needing to find students to fill its cavernous 15,000 square-foot space.

Nor has anyone asked if the College did what would normally be required in this process by creating a Request For Proposal (RFP) to solicit bids in order to guarantee that the process was fair and open to other entities competing for this business.

This appears not to be the case given that the College was also funding another program at the same time (as reported in the College’s tax returns) that directly benefited the children of Jonathan Leopold, a board member.

According to the College’s now defunct website, Carina Driscoll was listed as Director of the Woodworking Program at Burlington College on the Faculty and Staff Directory in 2016. It is unclear how the College was able to hire her on staff while she remained the owner of VT Woodworking — directly benefitting from the College’s funding of her for-profit business.- a great read-  Read more

Recall?

Commie Bernie Sanders and his wife’s FBI investigation continues, new witness interviewed

May 8, 2018 — bunkerville

UPDATE: Last I heard the DOJ will not bring charges. What a surprise.

The links above were from Bunks earlier posts through the years documenting his illustrious career that few ever read about. Yet people are upset about this latest effort to stash more cash?

Do check out the full post:

Bernie and Jane Sanders College corruption? Funneled daughter $500,000

The best of the swamp.