Telemarketer to serve four years in prison for health care fraud

TAMPA — Samuel Friedman, owner and operator of SKF Enterprises LLC, a telemarketing firm, has been sentenced to four years in prison for a health care sales scheme that defrauded Medicare-aged people and involved bribes paid to doctors. 

According to a press release, Friedman, 45, pleaded guilty June 16. In addition to prison, the Land O’ Lakes resident was ordered to pay $3.42 million in restitution to victims and forfeit $475,000 in real estate and cash that he obtained via the scheme, the release from the U.S. Attorney's Office adds.