One of the ironies of the fraud that Martin Rebollo and Noly Ilarde pleaded guilty to running at Petco Park and Snapdragon Stadium is that technically the victims are the companies that paid them, Delaware North and Aztec Shops, respectively.
Rebollo and Ilarde admitted that they took advantage of a program that allows nonprofits to bring their volunteers to work concession stands in exchange for roughly 10 percent of the money those stands bring in during an event.
Delaware North, the company that runs concessions for the Padres at Petco Park, paid Rebollo and Ilarde’s fake nonprofit Chula Vista Fast Pitch $3,489,231 over seven years until August 2023, when we revealed that Chula Vista Fast Pitch didn’t exist. Aztec Shops, at Snapdragon Stadium, paid Chula Vista Fast Pitch $262,248.47 from October 2022 to August 2023…