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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.
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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.
16 rankings
Rankings
Each list names the table it ranks, how the order is computed and the vintage of its source. Two of them, PPP lenders and prosecutions by district, are listed separately below.
- Federal Agencies by COVID-19 Dollars Obligated
- Pandemic Programs by Dollars Obligated
- The Largest Main Street Lending Program Loans
- Main Street Lenders by Participations Sold
- PPP Liquidity Facility: Institutions with Advances Still Outstanding
- The Largest Shuttered Venue Operators Grants
- PPP Lenders by Estimated Processing Fees
- What the 2021 Fee Schedule Was Worth, by Vintage
- States by Suspended PPP and EIDL Borrowers
- States by Suspension Rate per 1,000 Pandemic Loans
- U.S. Attorney's Offices by Pandemic-Fraud Announcements
- Provider Relief Fund: the 25 Largest Recipients
- States and Territories by COVID-19 Relief Dollars Obligated
- Federal Districts by Pandemic-Fraud Cases Announced
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.
8 guides
Guides
Each program guide gives the program's dates and amounts, where it appears in the filings and data, and what the enforcement tables count.
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.