The case desk doubled today. Four new public-record files open at once, and the Epstein file picks up the 2026 records-release fight. Every row in every one of them is anchored to an official record — and where the strongest public number is a watchdog estimate rather than an adjudicated finding, the file says so in plain language.
Pandemic-relief fraud
A new file tracks federal enforcement and oversight of PPP, EIDL, and pandemic unemployment fraud. The SBA Inspector General estimates that more than $200 billion in potentially fraudulent loans went out the door; the GAO separately estimates $100–$135 billion in pandemic unemployment fraud. Those are program-integrity estimates, not counts of proven loss. Against them the file sets adjudicated records — the Blueacorn loan-facilitator prosecution reached a jury conviction and a 10-year sentence — kept in their own lane. See the full file.
Cryptocurrency fraud enforcement
A file for the digital-asset enforcement record: DOJ criminal convictions (including the 25-year sentence in the FTX case and the 12-year sentence in the Celsius case), SEC and CFTC civil actions, crypto-exchange enforcement, and DOJ asset seizures. It deliberately holds two widely-repeated but unverified claims out of the record and in open questions instead. See the full file.
Boeing 737 MAX safety oversight
A file for the safety-oversight record — and a careful one, because the outcome is easy to overstate. Boeing was charged, entered a 2021 deferred-prosecution agreement, and reached a July 2024 guilty-plea agreement — but the court rejected that plea, the parties then signed a non-prosecution agreement, and the criminal case was dismissed in November 2025. Boeing was not convicted in this matter. The file threads that sequence through DOJ's own running case record, the NTSB investigation of the Alaska Airlines 1282 door-plug accident, and FAA and DOT-OIG oversight. See the full file.
Federal AI-safety governance
A file for the government's own AI-governance record — distinct from our model-release and AI-procurement files. It tracks the executive-order chain (EO 14110, its revocation, and its replacement), the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the standards body launched as the AI Safety Institute, FTC enforcement on AI claims, GAO oversight, and congressional records. It does not rate any model's quality. See the full file.
Epstein file: the 2026 records-release fight
The Epstein file gains the procedural record of the 2026 disclosure litigation — a federal suit over whether more of the files must be produced unredacted, the government's response and redaction-log posture, and congressional review requests. Consistent with the file's standing rule, this covers only the release process — orders, filings, deadlines, and redaction requirements — never the contents of a sealed record, the name of a third party who merely appears in a document, or any allegation about a living person. See the full file.
The rule that holds all five together
A case file is a navigation packet for the public record, not a verdict. An estimate is not a loss. A charge is not a conviction. A referral is not a finding. Each file exposes its source URLs and its own prohibited-output rules so a mirror can carry it without carrying our judgment. Today the desk got bigger; the rule that keeps it honest did not move.
Source links
- Hugin case: Pandemic-Relief Fraud Accountability File
- Hugin case: Cryptocurrency Fraud Enforcement Accountability File
- Hugin case: Boeing 737 MAX Safety Oversight Accountability File
- Hugin case: Federal AI Safety Governance Accountability File
- Hugin case: Epstein Public Records Accountability File
- SBA-OIG Report 23-09 (PPP/EIDL fraud landscape)
- GAO-23-106696 (pandemic UI fraud estimate)
- DOJ: United States v. The Boeing Company (case record)
- NIST AI Risk Management Framework