Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., deposited hundreds of thousands of dollars donated to his presidential and senatorial campaigns to a charity group run by his wife and stepson, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.

The Sanders Institute temporarily ceased operations during the senator’s 2020 campaign for the Democrat presidential nomination “so there could not even be an appearance of impropriety,” the Examiner reported. But according to campaign finance records, between April 2021 and November 2024, it received $775,000 from Sanders’ presidential and Senate campaigns.

The organization received $350,000 from Sanders’ presidential campaign in 2021, according to tax records, and more than $200,000 from his Senate campaign account in 2023, the Examiner reported, the same year the Sanders Institute reported just $228,000 in total donation revenue.

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