Felony charges filed against Mainscape owner/CEO

INDIANAPOLIS -- The owner of a Fishers-based landscaping company faces federal wire, mail and health care fraud charges alleging he participated for years in a scheme to defraud the federal health care system of millions of dollars.

Dave Mazanowski, owner and CEO of Mainscape Inc., was charged Wednesday with one count of conspiracy to commit mail, wire and health care fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.

Prosecutors allege Mazanowski was involved in a scheme with former American Senior Communities CEO James Burkhart to falsify and inflate invoices in order to pay approximately $1.5 million in kickbacks to themselves and Burkhart's alleged co-conspirators between 2009 and July 2015.

Burkhart, along with alleged co-conspirators Daniel Benson (ASC's former COO), Steven Ganote and his brother, Joshua Burkhart, was indicted last week on 32 federal counts, including conspiracy to commit wire, mail and health care fraud, money laundering and conspiring to violate anti-kickback statutes.

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He was sentenced in July of 2018, which you can read more about here.