Name: Pandemic enforcement and suspension events, 2026
Creator: Pandemic Darlings
Published: 2026-09-21

Rows57

Columns28

Files1 · 64 KB

FormatCSV

Source vintageSBA, SBA OIG, Justice Department, White House and PRAC documents dated 2026-01-02 to 2026-09-16

Published byPandemic Darlings

Acquired / built2026-09-21

Built from18 more, listed under Related records

SHA-2560746d441feb2be9e07bf111d6e4038fadd538dccf16782f8be92120b06e48f1f

RightsCompiled from U.S. government public records; attribution to Pandemic Darlings requested for the compiled table.

Dictionarydictionary.csv

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At a glance

Measured on the served file on 2026-09-21; the checksum above is the file these numbers describe.

Rows57

Columns28

Keyevent_id + measure · unique

Cells left blank121 of 1,596 · 7.6%

Actions20

Documents18

Action types9

Rows on pandemic relief program actions50

What it is

One row is one figure as one federal announcement prints it, attached to the action it describes. Rows that share an event_id are different figures from the same action: the Justice Department's September 14, 2026 surge release gives charges, guilty pleas, sentences and a combined total as four figures with four different populations, so it is four rows.

Each row carries the verbatim span of the source document that contains the figure, the character offset of that span in the document's text, the document's public address, the path of the archive's copy, and the SHA-256 of that copy.

The unit is a figure within an announced action. It is not a borrower, not a case and not a dollar.

How it was built

Figures were copied from the text and tables of the documents listed under Related records. value_as_printed holds the document's own string and value_numeric the number behind it, so the qualifier in words ("over", "approximately", "up to") stays in qualifier rather than being lost in the number.

The SHA-256 of each of our copies was recomputed at build time and again at packaging time and compared with the hash the archive recorded when the file was retrieved: 18 of 18 files matched both times. Every one of the 57 quotes was re-found in the document's plain-text version at the character offset the row pins, 57 of 57 at packaging time.

The universe is federal actions on the pandemic relief programs, each recorded in a document the row cites, plus the enforcement bodies created alongside them. Rows about those bodies carry scope=context because their remit is wider than the pandemic programs.

Preview

event_id	event_date	document_date	agency	action_type	event_title	programme	jurisdiction	jurisdiction_type	scope	statement_type	measure	value_as_printed	value_numeric	unit	qualifier	population_wording	quote	source_doc_id	source_pin	public_url	copy_on_this_site	sha256_of_our_copy	retrieved_date
EV-001		2026-01-02	U.S. Small Business Administration	borrower suspension	SBA suspension of Minnesota pandemic-loan borrowers	PPP; COVID EIDL	Minnesota	state	pandemic programme	earliest statement found	borrowers_suspended	6,900	6900	borrowers	exact	borrowers in the state	The agency also suspended 6,900 borrowers in the state for …	wh-mn-0102	character offset 4369 of the plain-text version; 202 c…	https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/01/heres-what-the-…	in the archive…	7befd5b19334abaad45b786cce999b7c0b0876e6d2636a19d2c0639daf6…	2026-09-15
EV-001		2026-01-02	U.S. Small Business Administration	borrower suspension	SBA suspension of Minnesota pandemic-loan borrowers	PPP; COVID EIDL	Minnesota	state	pandemic programme	earliest statement found	suspected_amount	approximately $400 million	400000000	US dollars	approximately	suspected fraudulent activity	The agency also suspended 6,900 borrowers in the state for …	wh-mn-0102	character offset 4369 of the plain-text version; 202 c…	https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/01/heres-what-the-…	in the archive…	7befd5b19334abaad45b786cce999b7c0b0876e6d2636a19d2c0639daf6…	2026-09-15
EV-002	2026-01-22	2026-01-22	U.S. Small Business Administration	eligibility review	SBA opens a review of Planned Parenthood affiliate PPP loans	PPP	United States	national	pandemic programme	first announcement	letters_issued	38	38	affiliates	exact	affiliates of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc.	the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued letters…	sba-26-24	character offset 115 of the plain-text version; 395 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/01/22/sba-opens-review-…	in the archive…	4c2f6ff0391b6ad74b7811d156c2e70f25693d72b11d9d465c5ce27e3c3…	2026-09-15
EV-002	2026-01-22	2026-01-22	U.S. Small Business Administration	eligibility review	SBA opens a review of Planned Parenthood affiliate PPP loans	PPP	United States	national	pandemic programme	first announcement	amount_under_review	more than $88 million	88000000	US dollars	more than	COVID-era relief through the SBA Paycheck Protection Progra…	requiring them to produce documentation proving they were e…	sba-26-24	character offset 306 of the plain-text version; 204 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/01/22/sba-opens-review-…	in the archive…	4c2f6ff0391b6ad74b7811d156c2e70f25693d72b11d9d465c5ce27e3c3…	2026-09-15
EV-003	2026-02-06	2026-02-06	U.S. Small Business Administration	borrower suspension	SBA suspension of California pandemic-loan borrowers	PPP; EIDL	California	state	pandemic programme	first announcement	borrowers_suspended	111,620	111620	borrowers	exact	California borrowers	the agency has suspended 111,620 California borrowers amid …	sba-26-29	character offset 245 of the plain-text version; 127 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/02/06/sba-suspends-1116…	in the archive…	18f22248cbb87feafcca9144ed41b8d16a39d678d1d6837575afb625b8e…	2026-09-15
EV-003	2026-02-06	2026-02-06	U.S. Small Business Administration	borrower suspension	SBA suspension of California pandemic-loan borrowers	PPP; EIDL	California	state	pandemic programme	first announcement	loans_covered	118,489	118489	loans	exact	Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disas…	In total, these borrowers received 118,489 Paycheck Protect…	sba-26-29	character offset 373 of the plain-text version; 152 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/02/06/sba-suspends-1116…	in the archive…	18f22248cbb87feafcca9144ed41b8d16a39d678d1d6837575afb625b8e…	2026-09-15
EV-003	2026-02-06	2026-02-06	U.S. Small Business Administration	borrower suspension	SBA suspension of California pandemic-loan borrowers	PPP; EIDL	California	state	pandemic programme	first announcement	approved_amount	over $8.6 billion	8600000000	US dollars	over	loans totaling	In total, these borrowers received 118,489 Paycheck Protect…	sba-26-29	character offset 373 of the plain-text version; 152 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/02/06/sba-suspends-1116…	in the archive…	18f22248cbb87feafcca9144ed41b8d16a39d678d1d6837575afb625b8e…	2026-09-15
EV-004		2026-03-16	Executive Office of the President	enforcement body established	Executive Order 14395 establishes the Task Force to Elimina…	federal benefit programmes (not pandemic-specific)	United States	national	context	first announcement	(no quantity)				none		There is hereby established within the Executive Office of …	wh-eo-14395	character offset 5365 of the plain-text version; 118 c…	https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/03/est…	in the archive…	d453baf2d78da5551570d5a31bac7c1bf284a24bcc220639c4a53212a97…	2026-09-15
EV-005	2026-04-07	2026-04-07	SBA Office of Inspector General	funds returned	SBA OIG facilitates return of funds from two financial inst…	PPP; EIDL	United States	national	pandemic programme	first announcement	funds returned	more than $15 million	15000000	US dollars	more than	taxpayer funds associated with potentially fraudulent PPP a…	The U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Inspector …	sbaoig-15m	character offset 133 of the plain-text version; 343 ch…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/04/07/sba-oig-advances-…	in the archive…	7f5aa49b53f3a85478fcf97452dbc7594ab6b65e4e825d9d82c8be1f151…	2026-09-15
EV-005	2026-04-07	2026-04-07	SBA Office of Inspector General	funds returned	SBA OIG facilitates return of funds from two financial inst…	PPP; EIDL	United States	national	pandemic programme	first announcement	loans_covered	over 1,000	1000	loans	over	loans identified through fraud indicators	spanning over 1,000 loans identified through fraud indicato…	sbaoig-15m	character offset 414 of the plain-text version; 62 cha…	https://legacy.sba.gov/article/2026/04/07/sba-oig-advances-…	in the archive…	7f5aa49b53f3a85478fcf97452dbc7594ab6b65e4e825d9d82c8be1f151…	2026-09-15

First 10 of 57 rows · first 24 of 28 columns (the download has all of them) · cells longer than 60 characters are cut with an ellipsis · shown as text, unformatted.

Files

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`README.md` what the table is, what it does not measure, and how every number can be checked	—	4,912 B	27acf5c0382cf61591dca09a01dfc7f6d9473e99ae6053ebd5f5e877bda6dbb1	Download ↓
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Columns

Column	Type, measured	Blank	Distinct	Range / values	Meaning
`event_id`	text	0	20		Identifier for the action this row measures. Rows sharing an event_id are different figures from the same announced action.
`event_date`	date (ISO)	8	13	2026-01-22 – 2026-09-16	Date the action itself took place, ISO format, where a document we have establishes it; blank where it does not.
`document_date`	date (ISO)	0	16	2026-01-02 – 2026-09-16	Date of the document the row is taken from, ISO format.
`agency`	text	0	6	U.S. Small Business Administration (23), U.S. Department of Justice (14), SBA Office of Inspector General (13), U.S. Small Business Administration; SBA Office of Inspector General (3), Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (3), Executive Office of the President (1)	The body that took the action, as the document names it.
`action_type`	text	0	9	criminal enforcement summary (18), borrower suspension (14), funds returned (6), Treasury referral (6), enforcement body established (4), demand letter campaign (3)	The kind of action, from the nine-term controlled vocabulary listed in the data dictionary notes.
`event_title`	text	0	20		Short archive-written label for the action. Not a quotation.
`programme`	text	0	9	PPP; COVID EIDL (25), PPP; EIDL (9), SBA COVID-era loan programmes (9), federal programmes (not pandemic-specific) (3), multiple federal programmes incl. SBA loans (3), pandemic programmes (multiple) (3)	The relief program or programs the action concerns, as the document names them.
`jurisdiction`	text	0	9	United States (34), Western District of Missouri (6), California (3), Alabama; Florida; Georgia; Louisiana; Mississippi; North Carolina; South Carolina (3), Kansas; Missouri (3), Minnesota (2)	The state, territory, district or country the action covers, as the document names it.
`jurisdiction_type`	text	0	4	national (34), state (11), multi-state (6), federal judicial district (6)	Whether the jurisdiction is a state, a group of states, a federal judicial district or the nation.
`scope`	text	0	2	pandemic programme (50), context (7)	pandemic programme for actions about PPP, COVID EIDL, SVOG or RRF; context for enforcement machinery whose remit is wider than the pandemic programs.
`statement_type`	text	0	4	first announcement (32), period total (18), earliest statement found (4), cumulative to date (3)	Whether the document is the first announcement of the action, the earliest statement found of an action announced elsewhere, a total for a stated period, or a figure cumulative to date.
`measure`	text	0	38		What the figure counts. '(no quantity)' where the document announces an action without a figure.
`value_as_printed`	text	5	51		The figure exactly as the document prints it, including its words.
`value_numeric`	number	5	48	2 – 39B · median 339K	The same figure as a number, for sorting only. A qualifier such as 'over' or 'approximately' is NOT encoded here; read the qualifier column with it.
`unit`	text	5	13		What the number counts: borrowers, loans, dollars, defendants, letters and so on.
`qualifier`	text	0	9	exact (25), over (9), approximately (8), more than (5), none (5), nearly (2)	The document's own hedge on the figure: exact, approximately, over, more than, fewer than, nearly, estimated, up to, or none.
`population_wording`	text	5	51		The document's own words for what the figure covers.
`quote`	text	0	49		The verbatim span of the document that carries the figure, with whitespace collapsed and curly punctuation folded to ASCII.
`source_doc_id`	text	0	18		Short identifier of the document.
`source_pin`	text	0	49		Where the quote sits in the plain-text version: character offset and length.
`public_url`	text	0	18		The document's address on the publisher's website, as recorded in our retrieval records.
`copy_on_this_site`	text	0	18		On-site route of our copy where one exists, otherwise the file name.
`sha256_of_our_copy`	text	0	18		SHA-256 of our copy, remeasured when this table was built and checked against our retrieval records.
`retrieved_date`	date (ISO)	0	3	2026-07-14 – 2026-09-18	Date our copy was retrieved, from our retrieval records.
`text_version_on_this_site`	text	3	17		On-site route of our copy where one exists, otherwise the file name.
`related_dataset`	text	30	3	data/sba-borrower-suspensions-2026 (15), data/doj-heartland-surge-district-releases-2026 (9), data/sba-borrower-suspensions-by-state-2026 (3)	A dataset already published on this site that carries the detail behind the action.
`measure_notes`	text	38	18		What this figure does and does not establish; recorded where the document's wording needs it.
`event_notes`	text	22	11	Counting period stated as June 12 to Sept. 1. Charges, pleas and sentences are separate populations; the release does not say whether the same defendant can appear in more than one. (9), District-level subset of the national surge in EV-018; the two must not be added together. (6), The headline says $22 billion; the body says $22.2 billion. Both are recorded. (4), Mixed-programme totals: the release covers SNAP, SBA loans, housing benefits and tax fraud together and does not separate the SBA share. (3), The release carries a 52-row state and territory table; those rows are the published dataset data/sba-borrower-suspensions-2026 and are not repeated here. (3), Figures are cumulative to date as printed in the report covering October 1, 2025 - March 31, 2026; the report does not give a start date for the cumulation. (3)	What the row set for this action does and does not establish.

Type, blanks, distinct count, and range are measured on the file. The same table as CSV: dictionary.csv.

How to use it

Specific to this file, measured on it: keys, joins, encodings, units, and the values that will trip a naive count.

Do not add the rows. Figures from different announcements cover different populations and overlap by an unknown amount. Within one surge release the charge, plea and sentence counts may describe the same defendant more than once; the releases do not say.
Group by event_id before counting actions. There are 20 actions behind 57 rows.
event_date is blank where no cited document establishes the date of the action (8 rows). document_date is always present: it is the date of the announcement, not of the action.
value_numeric is only comparable within one unit. The column holds borrowers, loans, dollars, letters, percentages and counts of people.
Two figures conflict and both are kept. The Minnesota suspension is "approximately $400 million" in SBA 26-29 and 26-56 and "roughly $430 million" in SBA 26-47; the Treasury referral is "$22 billion" in the title of SBA 26-47 and "$22.2 billion" in its body.
CRLF line endings, UTF-8, 65,586 bytes.

Before you quote a row

These are the government's statements, not findings. A suspension, a referral, a demand letter, an intended-loss figure and a criminal charge are administrative or accusatory steps. None is an adjudicated finding.
Ordered is not collected. Where a document says restitution or forfeiture was ordered, the row says ordered.
It is not complete. It covers only actions with a cited document behind them. Where an action is known only from a later restatement, statement_type says earliest statement found.
It holds no estimate of the size of pandemic fraud. Those figures are in pandemic fraud estimates, which records what each published estimate measures.
The suspension figures themselves are a separate table. SBA borrower suspension figures, 2026 holds them at figure level, including the 52 state and territory rows of release 26-91. This table records the actions and points at that table through related_dataset.
The Maine round is pinned to the earliest document that prints it. The table cites no SBA release announcing that suspension. The figures are taken from release 26-56 of 4 June 2026, which prints them 34 days before release 26-70 repeats them.

Cite this table. Name the source vintage; the numbers depend on it.

Pandemic enforcement and suspension events, 2026, compiled from SBA, SBA OIG, Justice Department, White House and PRAC documents dated 2026-01-02 to 2026-09-16. Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/pandemic-enforcement-events-2026/, SHA-256 0746d441feb2be9e07bf111d6e4038fadd538dccf16782f8be92120b06e48f1f