February 12, 2026 – SAN JOSE, CA – All five members of a conspiracy to steal more than $2,500,000 from DoorDash, Inc., by placing phantom delivery orders have been sentenced in federal court for their roles in the fraud scheme, with the final defendant sentenced on Tuesday.  U.S. District Judge Beth Labson Freeman handed down all five sentences.

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According to court documents, from November 2020 to February 2021, Matheus Duarte, 30, a Brazilian national residing in Hayward, Calif.; Hari Vamsi Anne, 31, of Cypress, Texas; Sayee Chaitanya Reddy Devagiri, 31, of Newport Beach, Calif.; Manaswi Mandadapu, 31, of Irvine, Calif.; and Tyler Thomas Bottenhorn, 30, of Dixon, Calif., worked together to cause DoorDash to pay for deliveries that never occurred.

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DoorDash’s business includes providing delivery services to customers in response to orders placed using the entity’s platform, which would then be fulfilled by drivers.  In furtherance of the scheme, 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, 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.

The scheme resulted in fraudulent payments exceeding $2,500,000.

All five defendants pleaded guilty and admitted to their involvement in the scheme to defraud, and have been sentenced as follows:

• 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.  Duarte will begin serving the sentence on March 4, 2026;
• Anne was sentenced to 22 months in prison and a three-year period of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,590,195 in restitution.  Anne will begin serving the sentence on March 4, 2026;
• Devagiri was sentenced to 21 months in prison and a three-year period of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,590,195 in restitution, and to forfeit $356,732.  Devagiri will begin serving the sentence on March 17, 2026;
• Mandadapu was sentenced to 12 months in prison and a three-year period of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,590,195 in restitution.  Mandadapu will begin serving the sentence on March 26, 2026; and
• 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.

United States Attorney Craig H. Missakian and FBI Special Agent in Charge Sanjay Virmani made the announcement.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael G. Pitman prosecuted this case with assistance from Sahib Kaur.  The prosecution is the result of an investigation by the FBI.

Source: DOJ Release