Food delivery app DoorDash will have to pay New York-based workers nearly $17 million for unfairly using customer tips to cover its workers’ wages, rather than letting drivers keep tips in addition to their set pay,

"Customers were misled into believing their tips would directly benefit Dashers," the attorney general's office said in a news release.

Attorney General Letitia James unveiled on Monday a massive DoorDash settlement on Monday resulting from an alleged tip scheme that led to wages stolen from delivery workers. According to James, the food delivery company misled customers by pocketing tips intended for the delivery workers racing around the city and added those funds to the base pay,