... [former publisher of Campaigns & Elections Magazine James] O’Brien has analyzed the financial status of Sanders and his wife, including their financial disclosure report, and has concluded they have a net worth in the range of $1.2 to $1.5 million, not the $700,000 or less that is usually reported by the media. (snip)
… his wife, Jane O’Meara Sanders, left her position as president of Burlington College under controversial circumstances and is now being accused of federal bank fraud. She left her position at the college and was given a severance package known as a “golden parachute” that also benefited Senator Sanders’ personal wealth.
Hmmm: The old “cut the wife big checks from nonprofits” gambit.
... as noted by Bruce Parker, a Vermont reporter for Watchdog.org—Senator Sanders should be asked to explain how his opposition to severance packages for corporation executives squares with his wife getting a cushy severance of $200,000.
Sanders is hiding some of his assets (legally):
O’Brien says that Sanders’ financial disclosure forms are incomplete. “For someone who doesn’t care about money, he goes a long way to cover up his true net worth,” he says. “Bernie does not disclose the value of real estate holdings. He can. He is not required to, but he could if he chose. It is known that he and/or his wife own at least two homes—one with rental income in Vermont and one near Capitol Hill where the median home value is $722,000.”
I have nothing against people buying houses and accumulating a net worth. But if Sanders’s wife executed a hypocritical severance package of the sort Bernie denounces, that is outright hypocrisy. And if he and his wife have accumulated a net worth that makes them millionaires, it sounds bad to his student loan-indebted followers. A million bucks ain’t what it used to be, but Sanders supporters don’t realize that
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