U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders accepted money from foreign donors via his principal campaign committee, Bernie 2016.
Under campaign election laws, political committees may not accept money from unlawful residents or non-U.S. citizens. If such monies are received, the committee must comply with a strict set of directives by the FEC. These include a prohibition against using the money in a campaign and returning the money within a certain time frame.
During the first four months of his campaign, a total of 231 individuals were identified as Foreign Nationals (“aliens”) whose contributions contravened federal election laws.
Those named come directly from correspondence by the Treasurer of the committee, Susan Jackson, following reviews by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
According to Jackson, all donations have been refunded. The amount of these refunds will be reported in the April 2016 FEC report submitted by Bernie 2016.
The vast number of these donors have English surnames, giving a clue to their country of citizenship. Major English-speaking countries include United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They may also be campaigning online for Bernie Sanders. A cross-reference of these identities with social media accounts would verify this hypothesis.
Below are the 125 individuals identified by the Bernie 2016 Treasurer as foreign nationals who donated to the Sanders campaign during the month of January 2016.
Here is the entire response by Susan Jackson, submitted to the FEC on 31 March 2016.
LIST OF FOREIGN NATIONALS CITED FOR JANUARY 2016:
- Abner, Jerimy
- Abovyan, Minas
- Abu-Rayyan, Osama
- Akirov, Simon
- Alioto, Anthony
- Asbell-clarke, Jodi
- Auger, Claudia
- Bartkowski, Jonas
- Bejarano,Enrique
- Bellas, Leslie
- Bidtnes, Imre
- Borgendale, David
- Budzowski, Michal
- Buechting, Markus
- Caplan, Lee
- Chetty, Kay
- Claghorn,Peter
- Clay,William
- Cotela, Frank
- Crispin, Malinda
- Dabrowski, Adam
- Dreckman, Dale
- Ehrlich, Karl
- Ferrin, Donald
- Fritze, Jorg
- Glance, John
- Goldman,Daniel
- Gonsalves, Arthur
- Graves, John
- Greig, Clark
- Grinstead, Charles
- Groves, Alan
- Guccione, Elizabeth
- Hammer,Barbara
- Hansen, Wells
- Hardeng, Erik
- Hellmann, Bryna
- Hodge, Mark
- Humphrey, Matthew
- Jarvis, Chad
- Jordahl, Jonathan
- Kaufmann-Pankov,Margret
- Kavalar, Martin
- Kent, Douglas
- Khan, Jayne
- Khoury, George
- Kline, Erik
- Korda, Niki
- Kraybill, Christopher
- Lind,Aden
- Lukaszewicz, Jacek
- Luzi,Steiner
- Mathieu, C
- McCreery, John
- McNamara, Thomas
- McQuaite, Kim
- Meagher,Brendan
- Mendelson, Martin
- Miller, Brian
- Miller, Scott
- Moon, Clive
- Morrissey, Kelly
- Nakamoto, Reyn
- Nearn, Patricia
- Nesseldreher, Josh
- Normand, Laurent
- Ouellet, Phil
- Painter, John
- Pepper, Analee
- Peterson, Linn
- Piper, Jane
- Price, Pamela
- Rand, Thomas
- Randall, Joshua
- Reis, David Martin
- Riebau, Al
- Roland, Raymond
- Rowe, Francis
- Sachs, Jonathan
- Sallie, Richard
- Sammond, Nicholas
- Sarwar, Muhammad Ameer
- Schlaff, Jonathan
- Schneider, Marion
- Schotthoefer, Jens
- Schwartz, Alexandre
- Shalom, Chris
- Sharon, Ossie
- Sheahan, Greg
- Sherlock, William
- Shrenzel, Victor
- Shuler, Thomas
- Siebert, Sophie
- Sokal, Alan
- Spiegelman, Helen
- Stroberg, Ragnar
- Stroyman, Herschel
- Strull, Nat
- Suchman, Lucy
- Swift, Susan
- Tabick, Larry
- Teoh, Ming
- Thayer, Donnette
- Thompson, Linda
- Tipperman, Mark
- Tokumitsu, Miya
- Tran, Andre
- Troendle, Yves
- Tseng, Sarah
- V Grantham, Micaela
- Van de Wint, Jay
- Van der Kloot, William
- Vegunta, Sarat Chandra
- Vogel, Andrea
- Waage, Aleksander
- Wang, Abigail Yue
- Wasserman, Nancy
- Westbrook, Russell
- Westling, Robert
- Wikander, Bengt
- Windel, Aaron
- Wise, Sam
- Woolworth, Frederick
- Wyman, Tracy
- Yeager, Elyse
Below are the 106 individuals identified by the Bernie 2016 Treasurer on 17 March as foreign nationals who donated to the Sanders presidential campaign between October 2015 – December 2015.
Here is the entire response by Susan Jackson, submitted to the FEC on 17 March 2016.
LIST OF FOREIGN NATIONALS CITED FOR 2015:
- Aaron Atkins
- Aaron Windel
- Abigail Yue Wang
- Alaa Ujayli
- Alan Groves
- Aleksander Waage
- Alisaun Fukugaki
- Anallee Pepper
- Anders Ecklof
- Anthony Curwen
- Bradley Goodman
- Brooke Lhernould
- Bruce Stores
- Charles Grinstead
- Charles Newman
- Cheryl Mathieu
- Christopher Kraybill
- Clive Moon
- Craig Higgins
- Dale Dreckman
- Daniel Boyd
- Daniel Coffey
- Darla Nordstrom
- David Borgendale
- David Peacock
- David Thompson
- Deaglan McManus
- Donald Ferrin
- Donnette Thayer
- Dorothy Dufour
- Douglas Kent
- Erik Hardeng
- Frederick Woolworth
- Gary Cornelius
- Gary Gebhardt
- Grant Lovering
- Harry Bingham
- Imre Bidtnes
- J Doherty
- Jane Piper
- Janis Kenyon
- Jay Van de Wint
- Jedediah Sklower
- Jerimy Abner
- John Graves
- John McCreery
- John Painter
- Jonathan Sachs
- Jonathan Schlaff
- Karl Ehrlich
- Karl Kaufman
- Kelly Morrissey
- Kim McQuaite
- Kylie Gutry
- Larry Tabick
- Laurent Normand
- Laurie Bloom
- Leslie Bellas
- Linn Peterson
- Malinda Crispin
- Margaret Kelly
- Mark Collins
- Mark Harrick
- Mark Hodge
- Mark Tipperman
- Markus Buechting
- Mary De Lyrot
- Michael Hitzhusen
- Michael Sever
- Mike Mills
- Miya Tokumitsu
- Nicholas Reckert
- Niki Korda
- Ossie Sharon
- Pamela Price
- Paula Chavez
- Peter Claghorn
- Pymma Zatyz Handayani
- Randal Richins
- Raquel Luzi Steiner
- Robert Costanza
- Ronald Davis
- Ronald Phillips
- Ross Dunne
- Russell Westbrook
- Rustyn Mesdag
- Sam Wise
- Sean Gentry
- Sophie Siebert
- Stephanie Miller
- Stephen Stapleton
- Susan Bloom
- Susan Savage
- Susan Swift
- Susan Woudenberg
- Tahir Sharif
- Terence Kim
- Terrance Wapshall
- Thomas McNamara
- Thomas Shuler
- Tracy Wyman
- Victor Policheri
- Walter Hedrick
- William Clay
- William Sherlock
- Woodruff Benson