Owner of Schubas Tavern, Lincoln Hall and the music label Audiotree accused of secretly recording nanny and her friend

The lawsuit alleges that Michael Johnston, 38, and his wife Kelly Johnston recorded the nanny and her friend while they were undressing or bathing.

Johnston co-founded Audiotree and bought Schubas and Lincoln Hall in 2015 with his father William Johnston, a wealthy investor in Michigan.

A judge ordered him to have no contact with the witnesses, according to the Cook County state’a attorney’s office.

According to the lawsuit, the Johnstons placed motion-activated cameras in private areas around the home to record the women without their consent.

Video shows Michael Johnston moving a camera to record a jacuzzi bathtub in the master bedroom, the lawsuit states.

The lawsuit recounts one alleged incident, two weeks after the woman was hired as a nanny in 2019.

In 2011, she and her husband gave over $100 million to create the Homer Stryker medical school at Western Michigan University.

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