The Pentagon accused a single food contractor of $757 billion in overbilling

Evidence

The Pentagon now says Supreme overbilled the military by 757 billion. Others have started to scrutinize how the company won competition-free contracts and charged service fees as high as 75 percent of costs. Supreme, for its part, denies overcharging and instead claims the government owes it 1.8 billion. In 2013, Supreme sued the Pentagon for awarding a new 10 billion Afghanistan food contract to a competitor that underbid Supreme's offer by 1.4 billion. The lawsuit failed. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 703

Categorization

• QUESTION: The $757 billion overbilling figure seems implausibly large — likely a typo in the source that would be worth verifying, given Pentagon food contracts are in the tens of billions.