"In furtherance of the scheme, prosecutors said the five defendants created fraudulent customer accounts and driver accounts on DoorDash's platform and used the fictitious customer accounts to place orders for delivery. Using insider access to DoorDash's computer systems, the defendants assigned those orders to fraudulent driver accounts, then manipulated DoorDash's computer systems to cause DoorDash to pay the fraudulent driver accounts as if individual orders had been delivered hundreds of times."
"All five defendants pleaded guilty and admitted to their involvement in the scheme to defraud, and have been sentenced as follows: Bottenhorn received a time-served sentence with a three-year period of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $2,127,216 in restitution, and to forfeit $244,247. Duarte was sentenced to 25 months in prison and a three-year period of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,590,195 in restitution, and to forfeit $336,712."
From November 2020 to February 2021, Matheus Duarte, Hari Vamsi Anne, Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, Manaswi Mandadapu, and Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn worked together to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred. They created fraudulent customer and driver accounts on DoorDash's platform, used fictitious customer accounts to place orders, assigned those orders to fraudulent driver accounts using insider access, and manipulated DoorDash's computer systems to generate payments as if orders had been delivered hundreds of times. The scheme produced fraudulent payments exceeding $2.5 million. All five pleaded guilty and received federal sentences along with restitution and forfeiture orders.
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