Cleveland Strip Clubs: Club 57 owner David Shapiro pleads guilty
ELYRIA — The owner of the Club 57 strip club took a plea deal Wednesday, putting him one step closer to resolving a string of legal issues that have plagued him this year.
David Shapiro, 44, pleaded guilty to attempted child endangering, a charge that could send him to prison for a year when he is sentenced next month by Lorain County Common Pleas Judge Raymond Ewers.
County Prosecutor Dennis Will said he doesn’t anticipate asking for Shapiro, who allowed a 15-year-old Michigan girl to dance at the club, to be locked up.
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Last year, county Common Pleas Judge Mark Betleski ruled that Club 57 could remain open as long as the strippers covered their genitalia and portions of their breasts.
But undercover Elyria police officers who visited the club in December and February said the strippers exposed themselves in ways that violated Betleski’s order and offered them private nude dances.