Sanders has continually swiped Clinton as the candidate of big money, including in a statement released Friday a couple hours after the pro-Clinton super PACs announced their huge haul. It boasted that “Bernie Sanders’ raised no money last year for a super PAC.”

Sanders “doesn’t want billionaires’ money. He doesn’t have a super PAC. He believes you can’t fix a rigged economy by taking part in the corrupt campaign finance system in which politicians take unlimited sums of money from Wall Street and other powerful special interests and then pretend it doesn’t influence them.

But, according to the super PAC’s FEC filing, almost all of the PAC’s cash flow came in the second half of last year ― and every dime of it came from the union itself. The super PAC, National Nurses United for Patient Protection, is affiliated with the nation’s largest union of registered nurses, National Nurses United, and its members have been a near-constant presence at Sanders’ rallies.National Nurses United for Patient Protection, spent $1.3 million in the second half of the year, including donations totaling nearly $400,000 to a pair of other unlimited-spending groups supporting Sanders ― the California-based Progressive Kick received $245,000 and the Chicago-based Reclaim Chicago got $150,000. Most of the direct spending by National Nurses United for Patient Protection went towards ads, rallies and other voter outreach associated with a bus tour supporting Sanders, according to the report.

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