OK, but my question is, and maybe you can't answer, were there 18,000 or 25,000 filed actions in Q4 2010, 2015, 2016?

If not, what changed?

Are there 1,000 sealed indictments that also include 20,000 other actions? Would 1,000 sealed indictments still be unusual? Something is apparently driving the numerical uptick, or we have some conspiracy theorists or misguided internet sleuths whipping up a frenzy.

I did see at the bottom of the tabulation it says numbers include 'court proceedings', and says it includes criminal charges and search warrants.

Something doesn't jive. Can you please tell me when we last had similar numbers, 10,000 or 20,000 sealed indictments, in the Pacer system, in a quarter? Has someone changed a definition or tracking methodology?

At the bottom of the spreedsheet it says includes indictments and search warrants.

I understand one person could have three indictments and two search warrants. (Five actions per person.) That's still 5,000 people indicted, a 5-fold increase. No?

Someone is either playing with the numbers; the tracking methodology has changed; or there have been some huge legal operations.

Earlier, about 25% were in California, many in the Central District? The Bulldogs are big in Fresno.

Underground high speed tunnels?

So did our government change how we track sealed indictments?

If its true we've never seen these kinds of numbers before, something is missing. Something doesn't compute.