# Ordered, and then what: a recovery ledger for 31 concluded matters

Money figures printed in held documents for 31 concluded federal prosecutions, each kept at its own stage: 120 amounts from court orders, judgments and Justice Department releases, with the file, the page and the sentence behind every one.

Published at https://pandemicdarlings.com/data/recovery-ledger-sample-2026/ . Compiled table; not part of release pandemic-darlings-data-v1-2026-07-10. Built 2026-09-24.

## Files

| file | rows | bytes | sha256 |
|---|---|---|---|
| `recovery-ledger-sample-2026.csv` | 120 | 68319 | `c83328fa31ebede2bf79e397287e08da51318c69c5d81cb5fa340811691a8aef` |
| `matter-summary.csv` | 31 | 9683 | `7b6d4690fd75a53e67efd4872eae9d5855de4759463c3b967a1233fa9aa16222` |

`dictionary.csv` beside this file describes every column of the served table: measured type, blanks, distinct values, range, example and meaning. `SHA256SUMS` carries the SHA-256 of every file on the page, including the page itself.

## What this is

One row is one amount, at one stage, as one held document prints it. One document prints several, and one amount can be printed by several documents: that repetition is the evidence, not an error. Rows are never summed, inside a matter or across matters.

The nine stages are the ones the documents themselves distinguish: identified, alleged, charged as intended loss, restitution ordered, forfeiture ordered, seized, returned, collected, and an unpaid balance stated on a given date.

matter-summary.csv carries one row per matter with each stage's amount or a blank, the source it was read from, and a plain sentence naming the double-counting risk where two stages can describe the same money.

## How it was built

A matter is identified by the case number printed on the document, never by a name and a district. Each row carries the case number as printed on that document beside the judgment's. Measured: 68 rows print a case number that matches the judgment's after normalising format, 52 print none, and 0 conflict.

Every row was re-read from our copy with a second extractor: file present, SHA-256 recomputed and compared, and the quoted wording and the printed amount found at the pin. All 120 rows passed.

Re-verified again when this page was built: 120 of 120 files present and hashing to the value in the row, and the wording and the printed amount re-found at the pin on 120 of 120 rows. Read with a layout-preserving extractor the wording matches character-for-character on all 120; two other readers reorder the boxes of the standard judgment form, and on 6 rows they do not return the line's words in the order the form prints them. On 6 rows the form prints the dollar sign in a table cell of its own, a space away from the digits; those six are given here with the sign against the digits, and the digits as printed.

Three of the 120 rows are not read from a sentence. On us-v-eley, us-v-harvell and us-v-laroche the figure is read positionally from the Criminal Monetary Penalties TOTALS grid of the judgment form (AO 245B), on page 5 for the first two and page 6 for us-v-laroche, by two independent methods that agree character-for-character: the page's words with their coordinates, clustered under the Restitution column header, and a layout-preserving rendering of the page parsed at the header's own character boundaries. Each figure is printed again in the Justice Department release for that matter — to the cent for us-v-harvell and us-v-laroche, and without cents ($166,656) for us-v-eley. The us-v-laroche release calls the sum an order of forfeiture: the court also entered a forfeiture order for the same amount (ECF No. 29), which the judgment adopts, so one sum was ordered twice, as restitution and as forfeiture, and it is entered here once, at the stage the judgment's grid prints. All three judgments carry a text layer; no figure among them is read by OCR.

## Read this before you use it

Ordered is not collected. A restitution order is an instruction to pay. It says nothing about whether a dollar moved. Of 120 rows, one is a collected row. Every other matter in this sample has no held document saying money was collected — a fact about the documents, not about the defendants.

It is not a recovery total. No column is summed and no total is published here. Adding the stages of one matter would count the same money more than once.

Two stages can describe the same money. The summary file names that risk for 16 of the 31 matters: restitution and a forfeiture money judgment ordered over the same loss, seized funds that will be applied to a judgment rather than added to it, and an obtained figure and a restitution order describing the same money at two stages.

A press release is not a court order. Where a release and a judgment print different figures, both rows stand, and the table does not choose between them.

Joint liability is not division. Where an amount is ordered jointly with codefendants, the row says so, and the same dollars appear in more than one defendant's judgment.

## What it does not measure

It is not a sample of pandemic prosecutions. The 31 matters are the ones where the archive holds all three pieces: a case page, a judgment or order, and a Justice Department release. It is not random and it is not representative.

Blank is not zero. Eight rows leave the numeric amount blank because the document prints words or a malformed figure. A blank stage in the summary file means no held document prints that stage, or that more than one figure is printed and the notes name them.

It does not follow the money after the order. Nothing here shows a payment schedule being met. The lane's not-held list names the ten kinds of record that would.

The matters themselves are on this site. Each row's matter links to its case page under court filings, where the held documents sit.

## Citation

Ordered, and then what: a recovery ledger for 31 concluded matters, compiled from held court records and Justice Department releases and read on 2026-09-20.

## Rights

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