California man found guilty of defrauding former employer Optum

Alpha News ^ | 2/20/26

[CFW]

A man who worked for the company Gov. Tim Walz recently hired to audit Minnesota’s Department of Human Services (DHS) programs at risk for fraud has been convicted of fraud.

Karan Gupta, 47, a former senior director at Optum, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, was found guilty after a six-day trial on multiple counts, including fraud and money laundering conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Daniel Rosen this week.

Gupta hired an unqualified friend for a position where the friend did no work and paid half his unearned salary in kickbacks to Gupta, whose fraud totaled more than $1.2 million, a press release from the U.S. attorney said.

Details from the case revealed that Gupta was a senior director of data analytics at Optum, Inc., a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, which is headquartered in Minnesota. At Optum, Gupta earned an annual salary of more than $260,000 at the height of his career.

In 2015, Gupta recruited and approved the hiring of a lifelong friend, Shangraf Kaul, to work at Optum in a managerial data engineering position. Gupta provided Kaul with a false resume, which Kaul used to secure the position, and Gupta became Kaul’s supervisor.

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KEYWORDS: calif; corruption; democrats; mn

[CFW]

A pipeline of corruption from CA to MN.

BTW, one of the women Nick Shirley spoke to while trying to get his "son" enrolled in daycare in Minneapolis, was arrested yesterday in the "Feeding our Future" fraud.

[vmpolesov]

Did Karan get Optum to sponsor Shangraf for a visa?

[BenLurkin]

hired an unqualified friend for a position where the friend did no work and paid half his unearned salary in kickbacks to Gupta

California level corruption.

[CFW]

“Did Karan get Optum to sponsor Shangraf for a visa?”

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Good question. The article didn’t address that issue.

“Gupta and Kaul agreed that Kaul would share more than half of his unearned Optum salary in kickbacks to Gupta. After initially withdrawing cash that was deposited by Kaul into Gupta’s bank as a kickback, a plan was hatched to conceal the kickback payments in a separate bank account, to which Kaul granted Gupta access through the use of a debit card. Gupta used the card to make cash withdrawals from ATM machines.

The fraud scheme was discovered after Gupta was terminated in November 2019 for a separate fraud by Gupta that Optum discovered. Optum investigated and referred the case to federal law enforcement.”

[alternatives?]

A California man named Karen? Nothing unusual there.

How many government employees are hired and expected to donate to the party?

[CFW]

Related:

“The Justice Department filed a civil complaint to revoke the U.S. citizenship of former North Miami mayor, Philippe Bien-Aime, alleging he fraudulently obtained naturalization by concealing material facts about his past.

The case underscores that U.S. citizenship is a privilege—not a right—and those who lie or hide the truth to obtain it will be held accountable. If proven, the defendant faces denaturalization, reinforcing the Department’s commitment to protecting the integrity of the immigration system and ensuring that fraud carries serious consequences.”

[spintreebob]

California level corruption is DELOITTE. Optum is a small player in creating the environment of fraud aka the SWAMP.

DELOITTE is the #1 creator of the environment of fraud with its IES INTEGRATED ELIGIBILITY SYSTEM that is in CA, TX, FL, GA, IL, PA, NY..25 states... mostly the big states, not MN.

The EMPI Enterprise Master Person Index of Deloitte IES is a fraud as it does not meet the definition of a Master Person Index. The IES and EMPI were intentionally designed to put dead people on Medicaid, CHPS, SNAP/EBT, WIC, TANF, Sec8, etc. IES and EMPI were intentionally designed to give separate distinct ID and duplicate benefits to Sue Smith, Susan Smith, Susan Jones-Smith even though those 3 spellings of the name are the same person with the same DOB and SSN and address.

[TheDon]

You sure Karan Gupta isn’t a Minnesota man? Sounds like a Minnesota man.

[Liz]

[Vaduz]

I suspect one would be hard pressed not to find corruption in any state it’s turned into a plague.

So much for oversight committees their in it too.