On April 14, 2020, six weeks after the first case of COVID-19 was detected in New Hampshire, Andy Sanborn secured his first $95,000 federal pandemic loan.

The money was awarded to the Draft sports bar in downtown Concord, which abruptly closed in March with all the other restaurants by the governor’s executive order. With multiple businesses and limited liability companies, that was just the beginning of the assistance Sanborn applied for and received. Within the next two weeks, the Sanborn’s Concord Casino, which had been open for less than two years, received an additional $29,300.