Pandemic Darlings The pandemic economy, in original documents
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Each count below is read from the page it describes.

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Front page

Opens with search, then sections headed Interactives, Articles, Explore the record, Rankings, Selected records, Latest additions and Guides.

Search

One box across the archive's documents, statutes, profiles and datasets.

The record

51,015 documents

Sources

Four kinds of source: court filings, source documents, data and statutes. The documents run to 736,257 pages and the data to 15,994,112 rows.

11,966 filings

Court filings

Indictments, complaints, plea agreements, orders, motions, exhibits and dockets, listed A–Z.

4,312 documents

Source documents

Agency and inspector-general reports, congressional records, bankruptcy and litigation documents, and lender and program materials, listed A–Z.

8 federal source releases

Data downloads

Downloadable tables built from preserved federal releases, among them the SBA's loan-level PPP file, USASpending's COVID EIDL awards and six and a half years of Department of Justice press releases.

19 reference pages

Statutes

The public laws and introduced bills behind pandemic relief; each page carries the citation, not the full text.

Findings and rankings

3 findings

Key findings

PPP charge-off rates by lender, Justice Department pandemic-fraud announcements by year, and businesses in more than one SBA program, each with the file and the code behind it.

28 interactives

Interactives

Calculators, quizzes, maps, charts, timelines and explorers in 9 sections; each recomputes its figures from a published source named on the page.

500 lenders

PPP lenders

The lenders with the largest approved-dollar PPP books; their rows hold 9,226,746 loans and $659.1 billion in approved dollars.

89 districts

Prosecutions by district

One page for each federal district with a pandemic-relief fraud prosecution record in the archive, filterable by state or court.

People, articles and guides

322 profiles

Profiles

Dossiers in 15 sections on the lenders and fintech facilitators, their principals, the SBA and Treasury officials who ran the programs, the oversight bodies, and the lawyers, judges and reporters around the cases.

16 articles

Articles

Reported pieces, newest first; every claim links to the record it came from.

About the archive

About

Where the documents come from, how files are processed, where models are used, and how corrections work.

Corrections

How an error is reported and how each kind is fixed. A report needs the page, the passage and the document that shows the error.

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