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- About Pandemic Darlings — Method, Sourcing & Corrections
- Where AI Is Used, and Where It Is Not
- Corrections
- Methodology — How Documents Enter the Archive
- Pandemic fraud, five years on: 2,709 federal cases
- COVID-EIDL Explorer: 3.68 million loans, $370.3 billion
- Two men are 49% of the PPP cast's $5.27 million in political giving
- 1,000 names in FEC data: 266 donor matches lean Democratic
- Rideshare, delivery PPP loans: 40,461 (2020), 409,313 (2021)
- Relief fraud and error in 24 countries, counted four ways
- Pandemic overlap expansion explorer: 195,574 entities
- PPP, EIDL, RRF and SVOG overlap: search 91,448 recipients
- 78,257 of 283,560 first-draw borrowers matched a 2021 loan
- PPP, EIDL, PPPLF and Main Street compared
- Articles
- $2.4 Million in Loans on Unfiled Tax Returns, Wired to Egypt
- A Bankrupt Firm's Unit Won a $55 Million FEMA Mask Contract. Its Co-Owner Pleaded Guilty
- Houston Store Cashed 1,100 Fake Paychecks Worth $3 Million
- Dormant LLC Funded a Camden Yards-View Apartment and a Mercedes
- Dormant Trucking Firm Claimed 26 Staff, Then Sought More PPP
- ADP and the Aggregate 941-X Pipeline
- "A ""Fraud"" Figure Can Mean a Conviction, Estimate or Mistake"
- Abbott And Quidel: The Test Makers That Survived
- Airline Payroll Support: Bailout With Strings
- Archdiocese Official's Fake Contractors, Then $2.1M in Loans
- Baltimore Tax-Bribery Official Also Ran a $138,000 PPP Fraud
- Baton Rouge Woman Gets 36 Months for Six Fake Relief Claims
- Blake Hall and ID.me's California Contract
- Blueacorn Won; Arbitrator Said $19.8M Should Go to PayNerd
- Bottom Line Concepts Paid Referrers 10% of Its ERC Fee
- Brillient's Two Pandemic Jobs
- Dan Gilbert's Subcontract Chain
- Federal Government Experts Won $38.5 Million in Mask Contracts for Masks It Did Not Have
- FEMA's $237.6M PPE Airlift: 35% Traced to Priority Sites
- FEMA Received More Than 3 Million Fillakit Test Tubes, Then Told States Not to Use Them
- Five Payroll Companies, Five Lines Around the Same Credit
- Halfway-House Resident Claimed a $99,000 Taxi Business
- Houston Woman Sentenced to 70 Months Over $1.9M in PPP Loans
- How Much Did Bank of America Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Blueacorn Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Capital Plus Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Cross River Bank Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Customers Bank Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Itria Ventures Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did JPMorgan Chase Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did M&T Bank Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did PNC Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did TD Bank Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Truist Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did U.S. Bank Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Wells Fargo Make From Pandemic Relief?
- How Much Did Womply Make From Pandemic Relief?
- The HRSA Uninsured Testing Gold Rush
- Innovation Refunds Sold via Banks, Not Just to Businesses
- James Stote's $35 Million PPP Recruiting Ring Nets Ten Years
- Letter 105-C Starts a Clock
- Million Man LLC Took False PPP Applications to Three Banks
- North Carolina Sent $3.1 Billion Before Verifying Spending
- Omega Funding Solutions: Promoter and Funder Under One Roof
- How 41 Companies Handled Pandemic Layoffs
- Pondera's 1.1 Million Flags
- PPP Reopened Nine Days Before the People Running It Left
- Provider Relief Fund: The Formula That Paid Medicare First
- PUA Was Built to Be Uncheckable
- The Six-Person Prime Contractor That Ran EIDL
- She Filed PPP Loans for Ineligible People, Then Took a Cut
- Stolen EIDL Money, a $77,898 Ford F-350 and a Seven-Week Run
- The 2025 ERC Endgame
- The Agents Got Nothing
- The Bank Never Lost the Money
- Banks Served Their Own Customers First, and Courts Shrugged
- The Bottom Line Concepts Contract
- ERC Mill Economy: Employee Retention Credit
- The Fifty Percent Rule
- The Filter That Froze California Unemployment
- IRS Can Pay Four Firms Up to $2.25 Billion to Scan Its Mail
- The Suit That Made SBA Name EIDL Borrowers, and Seven Others
- Maravai's 2021 CleanCap Revenue: 93 Percent From COVID
- The Pandemic Press Scorecard
- Thirty-Four Cases, Thirty-Three Schemes, No Fraud Rate
- Who Made Money From Pandemic Relief
- Five minutes to apply, 3.7M flags, 937 sentencings a year
- Build your own pandemic-fraud number from official estimates
- Two fintech platforms drove 81% of the CDFI channel
- Blueacorn’s $1.09B in PPP fees: 61% to a leadership-run firm
- Identity-theft indicators in 1 of 8 relief-fraud cases
- What pandemic relief the IRS can claw back
- Who delivered PPP: 11.47 million loans, lender by lender
- PPP loan amounts pile up at the program's rule limits
- 91,448 businesses drew from more than one relief program
- Where Pandemic-Oversight Lawyers Went Next
- 784 pandemic-fraud sentences, and how long they ran
- Second PPP draws: 23 days at Womply lenders, 49 at Blueacorn’s
- Data Downloads — 34 Derived Pandemic-Relief Datasets
- Coronavirus Relief Fund recipients — Pandemic Darlings Data
- Document coverage: 11,738 of 17,893 listed documents verified
- 2026 COVID-loan fraud surge: 31 U.S. Attorney releases
- Justice Department pandemic-relief announcements by year
- DOJ pandemic-fraud press releases: 3,093 indexed, 2020–2026
- DOJ press-release archive, 2020–2026: 135,405 releases
- Employee Retention Credit figures and Justice Department cases
- Education Stabilization Fund data: ESSER, GEER, EANS, HEERF
- Largest ESSER district awards and ARP ESSER by state
- Largest HEERF awards by college, and HEERF spending by year
- ESSER and ESF K-12 spending pace by month and state
- Main Street Lending and PPPLF data: 1,830 loans, 346 advances
- HHS Provider Relief Fund data: 419,846 payments, ARP Rural 47,087
- Federal suspension and debarment actions by agency, FY2023
- Pandemic enforcement timeline, 2026: 20 federal actions
- Pandemic enforcement and suspension events, 2026: 20 actions
- Pandemic fraud estimates: 22 published figures from 8 issuers
- Pandemic-fraud sentences data: 1,131 sentencing records
- PPP charge-offs by originating lender
- PPP and EIDL identity theft by program: 9.4% of PPP-only cases, 19.8% of EIDL-only
- PPP/EIDL identity theft: 246 of 1,977 prosecutions
- PPP/EIDL identity-theft check: 60 sampled prosecutions re-read from the full DOJ release
- PPP fee-schedule counterfactual by lender: 2020 loans under the 2021 schedule, 2021 loans under the 2020 schedule
- PPP processing-fee schedules by vintage: $38.24 billion in all
- PPP gig and solo-work industries: taxi and limousine loans rose from 16,593 to 234,254
- PPP lender fee model: SBA's fee schedule applied to 11.5 million loans
- PPP lender fees by lender type: fintechs $2,272 a loan, community banks $4,005
- PPP per-lender totals
- PPP loans by size band and month: 13 months, 8 bands
- PPP lender fees by lender and loan size: 4,689 lenders, $38.24 billion modeled
- What studies say about PPP outcomes: 82 findings, 40 documents
- PPP small loans by month and size band: who got them and when
- Top 500 PPP lenders by loan count
- Top 500 PPP lenders by approved dollars
- PPPLF bank leverage: peak Fed funding over call-report equity, 30 largest borrowers
- PPPLF advances by lender: 787 institutions, $198.61 billion advanced, $90.63 billion peak
- PPPLF fee join: modeled SBA fees against peak Fed funding for fifteen PPP lenders
- Cross-program relief matches: 91,448 businesses
- Payroll Support Program recipients — Pandemic Darlings Data
- 31 concluded pandemic-fraud cases: 120 money figures by stage
- Preserved Data Releases
- SBA's 870,000 borrower suspensions, 2026
- SBA suspended borrowers by state vs pandemic loans: 59 rows
- SBA PPP loan-level data (FOIA): 11,468,210 loans
- Restaurant Revitalization Fund data: all 100,828 SBA awards
- Shuttered Venue Operators Grant awards file: 13,011 rows
- SLFRF data: Treasury's State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds spending files as tables
- SLFRF by state and recipient: 30,807 governments
- SLFRF spending by category: 56.4 percent revenue replacement
- SLFRF tribal governments: $19.96 billion to 585 recipients
- The Loan Source's PPP book: 115,824 serviced loans by originating lender, SBA loan-level data
- Treasury airline payroll support data: PSP1, PSP2 and PSP3 files
- Twilio (TWLO) daily closing prices, January 2020 to June 2026
- Unemployment fraud and overpayment figures, by what they measure
- Pandemic unemployment overpayments, by state and program
- COVID EIDL awards from USASpending: 3,680,124 in 38 files
- Womply's PPP fees, lender by lender — Pandemic Darlings Data
- Womply loan count — Pandemic Darlings Data
- 2021 PPP fee rules paid lenders $8.74B more than 2020 rules
- Fraud Defendants — People Charged With Pandemic Relief Fraud
- PPP guaranty refusals: eight lenders, no suit against SBA
- Pandemic Relief Guides: PPP, EIDL, RRF, SVOG, UI and ERC
- CRF Guide — The Coronavirus Relief Fund in the Archive
- COVID EIDL: Loan Terms, Advances, Totals and Fraud Cases