Supreme Group USA offers supply chain and associated service solutions, including food supply and food service, fuel supply, logistics, and site services. At its peak the company received $2.8 billion from the Department of Defense in fiscal year 2012. In 2014 Supreme Foodservice GmbH (f/k/a Supreme Foodservice AG) and Supreme Foodservice FZE settled criminal charges of overbilling the government on a contract to provide food and bottled water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, paying $288.4 million in restitution, forfeiture, and fines. The same year the company paid $101 million, plus $1,450,000 in legal fees and expenses, to resolve A False Claims Act lawsuit alleging overbilling on a contract to provide food and bottled water.
Letter to Supreme Group sent 10/19/2018.
Ethics laws are riddled with loopholes. Without transparency and more effective protections of the public interest the revolving door between senior Pentagon officials and officers and defense contractors may be costing American taxpayers billions.