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Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal
court in San Jose to a single count of conspiracy to commit wire
fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
Devagiri, 30, of Newport Beach, California, admitted to working
with three others in 2020 and 2021 to defraud the San
Francisco-based delivery company, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said Devagiri used customer accounts to place
high-value orders and then used an employee’s credential to gain
access to DoorDash software and manually reassign the orders to
driver accounts that he and others controlled. Devagiri then
caused the fraudulent driver accounts to report that the orders
had been delivered when they had not, and manipulated DoorDash’s
computer systems to pay the fraudulent driver accounts for the
nonexistent deliveries, officials said.
Devagiri would then use DoorDash software to change the orders
from “delivered” status to “in process” status and manually
reassign the orders to driver accounts he and others controlled,
beginning the process again, prosecutors said.
The now-former employee in the scam pleaded guilty to conspiracy
to commit wire fraud in November 2023 and admitted to being
involved in the scheme, prosecutors said.
Devagiri is the third defendant to be convicted of his role in
this conspiracy. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in
prison and a fine of $250,000. He is scheduled to return to
court on Sept. 16.
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