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Hey, guys? I may have figured out Sanders' reluctance to release his tax returns. If I'm right, he WILL release ten years' returns (2008-2018) as soon as he's filed for 2018 -- because the return he's always been worried about is for 2007.
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Why do I say this? Because his wife, Jane, allegedly profited from ad buys in his first Senate campaign in 2006:
vtdigger.org/2016/07/15/san…
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vtdigger.org/2016/07/15/san…
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The Sanders denied it at the time, but think: the biggest ad buys are made late in the year. Jane's ($ millions) commissions likely wouldn't have been paid until 2007 -- meaning they'd be disclosed on their 2007 1040, not their 2006's.
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Sanders, stammering a bit strangely about his wife, promised to release ten years of returns in 2016 -- but didn't. Was that because they would have included 2007?
Then he started promising to release ten years' returns in 2019 -- but he's stalling until after '18's is filed.
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Then he started promising to release ten years' returns in 2019 -- but he's stalling until after '18's is filed.
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He's carefully delaying to avoid releasing 2007's return.
2017's return would reveal whether he and Jane self-dealt during his 2006 campaign (much as Trump has done).
We need to see his 2007 return.
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2017's return would reveal whether he and Jane self-dealt during his 2006 campaign (much as Trump has done).
We need to see his 2007 return.
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P.S. Bernie Sanders' 2007 financial disclosure form has this very weird line item. It's a number so high ($50MM) that there's no way it's from ad buys, but it's still pretty weird given his "we're poor!" claims. Typo?
Alternately, as @2nPac pointed out, ten years (including '18) would make '08, not '07, the mystery year. Q remains: why's Sanders timing his release of returns to exclude year(s) that would have been disclosed had he kept his promise to release them in '16, or earlier in '19?
@2nPac For example, '08 is when Burlington College began making pymts to a family friend's vacation business: freebeacon.com/politics/sande…
Kickbacks? No idea. Could be anything.
The point is, there seems to be SOMETHING iffy that would have been revealed in '16, but as of 4/15/19 won't be.
Kickbacks? No idea. Could be anything.
The point is, there seems to be SOMETHING iffy that would have been revealed in '16, but as of 4/15/19 won't be.
@2nPac PPS: Another piece of evidence suggesting Sanders is hiding something that's revealed in his 2008 tax return: in 2016, he promised to release 8 (not 10, as now) years of returns -- but didn't. That's 2015 through... 2008. factcheck.org/2016/04/sander…
