JANE SANDERS

The U.S. attorney in Vermont has told Jane Sanders, the wife of

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), that the office has completed an

investigation related to her stewardship of Burlington College and

decided not to bring charges, a top adviser to the senator said .

The investigation centered on a 2010 land purchase that relocated the

college Jane Sanders previously ran to a new campus on more than

32 acres along Lake Champlain. While lining up a $6.7 million loan

and additional financing, she told college trustees and lenders that

the college had commitments for millions of dollars in donations that

could be used to repay the loan, according to former trustees and

state officials.

Trustees said they later discovered that many of the donors had not

agreed to the amounts or the timing of the donations listed on

documents Sanders provided to a state bonding agency and a bank.

That led to her resignation in 2011 amid complaints from some

trustees that she had provided inaccurate information, former college

officials said.