Two Florida men have been sentenced to two years each in federal prison for running a mail-order pharmacy scheme that billed Medicare for nearly $900,000 in unneeded prescriptions.
Steven Anthony Churchill, 39, of Boca Raton, and Samson Kollelil Solomon, 28, of Pompano Beach, were both handed 24-month terms after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit health care fraud, mail fraud, and wire fraud. A third defendant, 46-year-old Fawn Lickteig of Lawrence, Kansas, also pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and is set to be sentenced on November 10, 2026.
Federal court records show Churchill purchased Free State Pharmacy in Lawrence, Kansas, back in March 2020, registering it under the name of an accused co-conspirator who has since died. While the business told Medicare it was a standard retail counter, it actually operated as a mail-order shipping business. Churchill hired Lickteig’s firm, Pharmacy Consulting, to file the pharmacy’s official paperwork and enroll it in Medicare and other government health programs…