Derived table · PPP and COVID EIDL
Sixty self-inflation prosecutions, re-read from the full release
The rule-based pass had classified 60 Justice Department releases as no identity theft; a reading of each full release found documented self-inflation in 37 of them, or 61.7%. In those 37 the defendant claimed payroll, employees or revenue for a business whose own records said otherwise. Sixteen releases, 26.7%, document no such claim, and seven, 11.7%, document part of one. Four of the 60, 6.7%, involved another person's identity after all; in a South Carolina release of June 28, 2022, Hammond used the identity of a deceased individual. The classification table carries those four as yes.
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One row for each of 60 prosecutions from the classification table, every one of them classified as no identity theft from the release summary, with the full release then read. Three hand-check columns hold what the text says: whether another person's identity was used, whether the applicants were straw borrowers who lent their own names, and whether self-inflation is documented. The excerpt column quotes the passage that decided the row.
Self-inflation is the defendant's own business reporting numbers its own records contradict. A Baltimore County businessman's application stated that PEI had 382 employees; the IRS Form 941 on file listed 79. A Chesterfield woman filed PPP applications for eight businesses she and her husband purportedly operated, with manufactured sales figures and fabricated tax returns. In both rows the applicant was a real person applying under a real name, so an identity check would have passed them and a payroll check would not.
Among the 56 releases that confirmed no identity theft, 34 document self-inflation, 60.7%; 15 document none, 26.8%; and 7 document part of one, 12.5%. Nine releases describe straw borrowers and one describes them in part; nine of those ten also document self-inflation in full or in part, because the straw applications carried fabricated tax forms and employee counts. Four releases touch state unemployment insurance as well as PPP or EIDL.
How it was built
The 60 are rows of the classification table whose identity_theft value was no and whose release had been classified from its summary alone; the table's has_full_text field is blank for all 60. Each release was fetched from justice.gov and read in full. Where the text described another person's identity, stolen or deceased or used without consent, the row was moved to yes in the classification table with the basis 'verified by full-text fetch (sample QA)'. That is how the four rows here read in the served table.
The release date, district, programs, charges, case type and dollar figure are copied from the served classification file for the same uuid. Program group reads the table's programs field: PPP only, PPP and EIDL, or EIDL only; a separate column marks the four cases whose programs field also names unemployment insurance. Rows keep the order of the sample index, 0 to 59.
Preview
| sample_idx | uuid | release_date | title | district | program_group | touches_unemployment_insurance | charges | case_type | dollar_amount_usd | dollar_amount_reliable | hand_check_identity_theft | hand_check_straw_borrower | hand_check_self_inflation_documented | hand_check_excerpt | classification_table_identity_theft | classification_basis | url |
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| 0 | acf7e527-fa78-426b-ab45-fa427e86bcbe | 2025-02-14 | Convicted Felon Admits To Defrauding COVID-19 Programs Whil… | NV | PPP and EIDL | yes | wire fraud, conspiracy | convicted | 137600.0 | yes | no | no | yes | sole proprietor of several companies which did not in fact … | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/convicted-felon-admits-d… |
| 1 | 170da2e2-83ff-4f88-a8a9-e7cecd2d82ce | 2026-02-05 | Chesterfield woman pleads guilty to defrauding numerous COV… | EDVA | PPP and EIDL | no | false statements | 225000.0 | yes | no | no | yes | filed PPP loans on behalf of eight different businesses she… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/chesterfield-woman-ple… | |
| 2 | 2172513f-397a-44f8-bb3a-3bf4f744f6bf | 2023-07-18 | U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown Announces the Indictment of … | WDLA | PPP and EIDL | no | conspiracy, wire fraud | 201100.0 | no | no | no | gang members each charged with conspiracy/wire fraud for PP… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/us-attorney-brandon-b-… | ||
| 3 | e80d1b25-8dd1-439f-93b9-788f58923c0c | 2023-10-11 | Ten Individuals Charged for $950,000 COVID-19 Relief Fraud … | PPP and EIDL | no | false statements, wire fraud | charged | 950000.0 | yes | no | no | yes | submitted applications on behalf of businesses and entities… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/ten-individuals-cha… | |
| 4 | d74dd036-60fc-4485-8bce-93f2bab078fa | 2023-12-20 | Tuscaloosa Woman Charged in $600,000 COVID-19 Loan Fraud | NDAL | PPP only | no | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | charged | 603976.0 | yes | no | no | partial | applied for two own PPP loans and conspired with four other… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndal/pr/tuscaloosa-woman-charg… |
| 5 | 3ec3a362-234c-4089-8258-049a4c791b67 | 2024-10-08 | Baltimore County Businessman Pleads Guilty To Fraudulently … | MD | PPP and EIDL | no | wire fraud, false statements | pleaded guilty | 1307170.0 | yes | no | no | yes | false statements...relating to PEI including the number of … | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-md/pr/baltimore-county-busines… |
| 6 | e33a8bf3-966e-460b-8bf5-e0ca15038702 | 2025-03-21 | Arizona Brothers Plead Guilty for Roles in Conspiracies to … | OR | PPP only | no | wire fraud, conspiracy, money laundering | pleaded guilty | 178000000.0 | yes | no | yes | yes | conspired to gather false and fraudulent business informati… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/arizona-brothers-plead-g… |
| 7 | f02c9f4f-91c3-46d4-b086-17900ee64524 | 2020-09-10 | Seven Charged in Connection with Over $750,000 Money Launde… | SC | PPP only | no | conspiracy, wire fraud, money laundering | charged | 2100000.0 | no | no | yes | Agard submitted a fraudulent Wild Stylz PPP loan applicatio… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-sc/pr/seven-charged-connection… | |
| 8 | 08b99abd-23cc-44eb-8272-0860a767894d | 2025-05-19 | Man Charged in Connection with Fraudulent COVID-19 Relief L… | PPP and EIDL | no | conspiracy, bank fraud, wire fraud, money laundering | charged | 3390000.0 | yes | no | yes | yes | directed at least nine business owners to submit fraudulent… | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-charged-connection-fraud… | |
| 9 | 8b866745-7483-438b-8650-38eda6f064c6 | 2022-02-04 | Green County Woman Pleads Guilty to CARES Act Fraud | WDKY | PPP and EIDL | no | wire fraud | pleaded guilty | 2000000.0 | yes | no | no | yes | Bauer exaggerated the gross revenues, number of employees, … | no | no identity-theft charge or third-party-identity language | https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdky/pr/green-county-woman-ple… |
First 10 of 60 rows · cells longer than 60 characters are cut with an ellipsis · shown as text, unformatted.
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ppp-eidl-identity-theft-sample-60.csvCSV, UTF-8, header row | 60 | 38,688 B | a02a4808e53bbd721495be7f3560be6eaf9b72d1f9f2509b06fb9e2a9568411c | Download ↓ |
dictionary.csvdata dictionary, 18 rows | 18 | — | built with this page | Download ↓ |
Columns
| Column | Type, measured | Blank | Distinct | Range / values | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
sample_idx | integer | 0 | 60 | 0 – 59 · median 29 | Position in the sample, 0 to 59. |
uuid | text | 0 | 60 | acf7e527-fa78-426b-ab45-fa427e86bcbe (1), 170da2e2-83ff-4f88-a8a9-e7cecd2d82ce (1), 2172513f-397a-44f8-bb3a-3bf4f744f6bf (1) | Identifier of the release in the DOJ press index and the classification table. |
release_date | text | 0 | 60 | 2025-02-14 (1), 2026-02-05 (1), 2023-07-18 (1) | Date of the release, as the classification table prints it. |
title | text | 0 | 60 | Convicted Felon Admits To Defrauding COV (1), Chesterfield woman pleads guilty to defr (1), U.S. Attorney Brandon B. Brown Announces (1) | Title of the release. |
district | text | 10 | 31 | SDWV (4), NJ (4), MD (3) | U.S. Attorney's office abbreviation from the classification table; blank for 10 releases. |
program_group | text | 0 | 3 | PPP only (33), PPP and EIDL (18), EIDL only (9) | PPP only, PPP and EIDL, or EIDL only, read from the table's programs field. |
touches_unemployment_insurance | text | 0 | 2 | no (56), yes (4) | yes if the programs field also names unemployment insurance. |
charges | text | 5 | 30 | false claims (8), wire fraud (6), conspiracy, wire fraud (4) | Charges as the classification table prints them; blank for 5 releases. |
case_type | text | 12 | 7 | pleaded guilty (19), charged (16), settle (3) | Stage of the case named in the release: charged, indicted, pleaded guilty, convicted, settle, agree to pay; blank for 12. |
dollar_amount_usd | number | 5 | 51 | 20.8K – 178.0M · median 950.0K | Dollar figure the classification table extracted from the release; blank for 5. |
dollar_amount_reliable | text | 15 | 1 | yes (45) | The classification table's flag on that figure: yes, or blank where the extraction was not confirmed. |
hand_check_identity_theft | text | 0 | 2 | no (56), yes (4) | yes if the full release describes another person's identity being used; no otherwise. 4 yes, 56 no. |
hand_check_straw_borrower | text | 0 | 3 | no (50), yes (9), partial (1) | yes, partial or no: whether the applicants were real people who lent their own names for a share. |
hand_check_self_inflation_documented | text | 0 | 3 | yes (37), no (16), partial (7) | yes, partial or no: whether the release documents inflated or invented payroll, employees, revenue or tax forms for the applicant's own business. |
hand_check_excerpt | text | 0 | 60 | sole proprietor of several companies whi (1), filed PPP loans on behalf of eight diffe (1), gang members each charged with conspirac (1) | Abridged passage from the release that decided the hand-check columns; ellipses mark cuts. |
classification_table_identity_theft | text | 0 | 2 | no (56), yes (4) | The identity_theft value the served classification table carries for the row today. |
classification_basis | text | 0 | 2 | no identity-theft charge or third-party- (56), verified by full-text fetch (sample QA) (4) | The classification table's basis for that value. |
url | text | 0 | 60 | https://www.justice.gov/usao-nv/pr/convi (1), https://www.justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/che (1), https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/us- (1) | The release on justice.gov. |
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.
- Sixty rows, not the universe. The 1,977 prosecutions are in the classification table; the program split is in the by-program table. These 60 test how the summary-based classification holds up against the full text.
- Read the excerpt before quoting a row. The three hand-check columns are a reader's judgement on the release text; the excerpt is the evidence for it.
- Sorted by sample index. Sort on
hand_check_self_inflation_documentedfor the 37 documented rows, or filterhand_check_identity_theftfor the four that moved. - LF line endings, UTF-8, 38,688 bytes.
Before you quote a row
- A sample. Percentages here are shares of 60 releases, with four of them identity theft after all; the classification table's own share is 246 of 1,977.
- Release text, not the docket. A press release states what the office announced; charges are allegations until the case type says pleaded guilty or convicted, and settlements admit no liability.
- Abridged excerpts. Each excerpt is cut to the deciding passage, with ellipses at the cuts; the url column reaches the full release.
- Dollar figures are extractions. They are the classification table's reading of the release, flagged in dollar_amount_reliable; 5 rows carry none.
PPP/EIDL identity-theft check: 60 prosecutions classified as self-inflation, re-read from the full Justice Department release. Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/ppp-eidl-identity-theft-sample-60/, SHA-256 a02a4808e53bbd721495be7f3560be6eaf9b72d1f9f2509b06fb9e2a9568411c