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53 reports · Oversight Desk

Every report filed to this desk. The sources column counts links to .gov records; an em dash means we hold no government document for that report yet.

All 53With .gov sources 8Needs sourcing 45
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The SBA Stopped Promising To Ask You First. It Valued Your Input At $4,311 A Year9573Record attached
870,000 Borrowers Cut Off From SBA Loans, About 80 Charged: The Gap Between A List And A Case1,2302Record attached
GAO: A 28 Percent Lower Price Lost To An Outstanding Rating On Pentagon Furniture Work9404GAO decision
GAO: Copying the Contracting Officer on a GAO Protest Is Not an Agency Protest1,0504GAO decision
GAO Told the Space Force to Tear Up a Los Angeles AFB IT Order1,2404GAO decision
Two Protesters, One 640 Million Dollar RFQ, One Sustain1,1903GAO decision
GAO Sustained 53 Protests Last Year. Sixteen Times That Many Got What They Wanted.1,1502GAO decision
SBA Processing Delays799—Unsourced
How Banks and the SBA Blame Each Other2,240—Unsourced
How the SBA Actually Works (And Why It Doesn't)2,048—Unsourced
The SBA's Org Chart: A Horror Story in Boxes and Lines374—Unsourced
The SBA's Favorite Lie: "We're Here to Help"498—Unsourced
The SBA Hiring Spree: Paying Bureaucrats to Bury Your Appeals511—Unsourced
The SBA Gave $312 Million in Pandemic Loans to Children Under 11 and $333 Million to People Over 115 Years Old1,309—Unsourced
The SBA Employee Handbook: A Comedy in Three Acts393—Unsourced
Thanksgiving with the SBA: A Recipe for Financial Disaster446—Unsourced
Small Business Owners Are Not Your ATM: A Message to the SBA646—Unsourced
SBA Whistleblowers: The Heroes Nobody's Listening To493—Unsourced
Vulture Capital: How SBA-Backed Investment Funds Preyed on the Companies They Promised to Help2,077—Unsourced
SBA Nukes 111,620 California Borrowers Over $8.6 Billion in Suspected PPP EIDL Pandemic Loan Fraud 20261,645—Unsourced
SBA Mental Gymnastics: Stupid in Its Final Form143—Unsourced
SBA Lending Partners: The Banks That Block Your Business992—Unsourced
Fighting the SBA in Court: How Small Businesses Are Winning1,397—Unsourced
SBA's IT Systems: Billions Wasted on Technology That Doesn't Work763—Unsourced
SBA Inspector General: The Watchdog That Only Barks9881Record attached
SBA Extends California Wildfire Deadlines While Local Bureaucrats Stall Recovery427—Unsourced
SBA Employee Got Hired at the IRS Too, Then Robbed Both Agencies Blind: The $3.5 Million Attallah Williams Saga712—Unsourced
SBA Debanking Crackdown: Banks Have Until January 5867—Unsourced
SBA Customer Service: Where Dreams Go to Die and Phone Calls Go to Hell1,233—Unsourced
SBA Corruption Exposed: The Culture of Failure1,187—Unsourced
SBA Brags About "Cutting Red Tape" While Drowning Borrowers in It474—Unsourced
SBA Bans Green Card Holders From Business Loans Starting March 1: Congratulations, Legal Immigrants Who Built American Businesses, You Are Now Officially Unwelcome776—Unsourced
SBA Approved $3 Billion in California Wildfire Disaster Loans But Only Disbursed $600 Million: Where Is the Other 80%?1,305—Unsourced
SBA Announces New "Hunger Games" Approach to Loan Processing396—Unsourced
REAL HORROR STORIES: "I Wish I Never Got That Loan" - Three Business Owners Destroyed by SBA Incompetence554—Unsourced
New SBA Regulations Shake Up Small Business M&A Starting January 17381—Unsourced
I Asked ChatGPT to Run the SBA. It Quit After 10 Minutes.370—Unsourced
How to File a Complaint Against the SBA: Complete Guide9454Record attached
How the SBA Ate My Ass176—Unsourced
How SBA Suspensions Actually Work: A Borrower's Guide to Being Guilty Until Proven Innocent587—Unsourced
FOIA Request Template: Getting Your SBA Records8942Record attached
California Wildfire Loans: $3.2 Billion Approved, 7 Structures Rebuilt. Yes, SEVEN.533—Unsourced
BREAKING: SBA Discovers Fire, Still Can't Process Loans384—Unsourced
An Open Letter to the SBA's Hold Music438—Unsourced
154 "Disadvantaged" Small Businesses Were Worth Tens of Millions and the SBA Gave Them $1.3 Billion Anyway1,5854Record attached
Two Thousand Eight Hundred Employees Is Small Now1,004—Unsourced
Four Disasters, One Form Letter, One Identical Deadline1,156—Unsourced
The SBA Rebuilt Its Front Door. Guess Who It Built It For.1,090—Unsourced
The SBA Found A Million Dollars. Somebody Else Paid It.1,088—Unsourced
SBA's $15M Grant Week: No Small Business Can Apply1,005—Unsourced
SBA Approved $3.4 Billion for LA Wildfire Survivors1,088—Unsourced
SBA Hired Palantir for $300,000 and Called It a Bootcamp1,203—Unsourced
SBA Denial Machine Rejects Legitimate Owners1,451—Unsourced
California's $8.6 Billion SBA Dragnet1,101—Unsourced
SBA Reinstates Lender Fees for Small Business Loans2,531—Unsourced
DOGE SBA Workforce Cuts and Service Risks1,557—Unsourced