California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a civil lawsuit Thursday alleging fraud and other financial misconduct by six San Diego County residents who allegedly took part in a $3.8 million scheme that involved pocketing charitable funds that were earned by selling concessions at Petco Park and Snapdragon Stadium.
The two lead defendants named in the civil case, Noly Hermoso Ilarde and Martin Jose Rebollo Jr., recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges in San Diego federal court, admitting that they ran a fake charity to carry out the fraud scheme and personally took more than $2 million in funds derived from it.
The new lawsuit, filed in San Diego Superior Court, alleges that four other individuals, including Ilarde’s wife and sister, also took part in the scheme by posing as unpaid volunteers when in reality they received tens of thousands of dollars from the alleged charity…
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