31 March 2019
By Email (press@sanders.senate.gov) and First Class Mail
The Honorable Bernard Sanders
United States Senate
332 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Re:

Request for information and documents related to Burlington College

Dear Senator Sanders:
After a summary of the Mueller Report was released by the Department of Justice you
told a reporter that “What we need right now is to see the full report.” You also demanded the
release of all information related to the Special Counsel investigation into Russian Collusion
in the 2016 election:
I don't want a summary of the Mueller report. I want the whole damn report … because
nobody is above the law.
As the leading announced candidate for the Democrat nomination for President of the
United States, I call on you to apply this same standard of transparency to yourself. Under
your proposed standard, surely you would agree that all investigative material related to the
criminal bank fraud investigation involving you and your wife should be released. That
material should include documents related to you and your office’s involvement in procuring
that fraudulent loan, which you have refused to disclose. You should also answer questions
detailing the full extent of your and your office’s communications with bank officials regarding
this fraudulent loan, which you have refused to do.
Unlike President Trump, who was categorically and publicly exonerated by the
investigation, you and your wife received no exoneration, public or otherwise. Indeed, the only
evidence that there was even a declination of prosecution is a statement by your paid
spokesman saying so. Therefore, we also call on you to reveal any documentation evidencing a
declination to bring criminal charges and ​all correspondence between your lawyers and the
investigating authorities.
In a recent fundraising letter, you approvingly quoted President Trump who said “Let
[the Mueller Report] come out, let the people see it.” Just as you called for the “Trump
administration to make the full Mueller Report public as soon as possible,” we call on you to
release these records without delay. Because, to paraphrase one of your other points, “no one,
including [a United States Senator], is above the law.” I look forward to your response.
Sincerely,

Deborah Billado
Chairwoman
Vermont Republican Party