A delivery driver pleaded guilty on May 13 to defrauding more than $2.5 million from the San Francisco-based DoorDash delivery company, according to federal prosecutors.
Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, a 30-year-old Newport Beach resident, and three others were indicted by a federal grand jury in August 2024 with a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California said in a statement.
Federal prosecutors said Devagiri admitted to working with others in 2020 and 2021 to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred. Under the scheme, Devagiri reportedly used customer accounts to place high value orders and then, using an employee’s credentials to gain access to company software, reassigned orders to driver accounts that he and others controlled…