Seventeen employees sue Illinois restaurant owner, 59, for secretly filming videos up their skirts by using small cameras on his SHOES - as prosecutors find 24,000 deleted images and say there could be up to 500 victims as young as 14
Restaurant owner Michael Papandrea, 59, allegedly taped a small camera to his shoes to film up skirt videos of his young, female employees
He is now facing 17 criminal charges related to unauthorized video recordings
Last month, several ex-employees filed a separate civil suit against Papandrea
It came after a forensic expert purportedly retrieved a whopping 24,000 deleted videos and images from one of the restaurant owner s hard drives