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Between 2016 and 2019, Close owned the Close School of Music on West Ridge Road, where he provided private music lessons to children. He put spy cameras throughout the school and secretly recorded the students, parents, and other teachers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Meghan McGuire said. Two cameras were in the school s only bathroom one under a toiler and the other in a water cooler facing the toilet. McGuire said the cameras were strategically placed in these positions.
Some footage revealed Close inappropriately touched his students and himself during lessons.
Before opening his own school, Close worked at another school between 2012 and 2016, where he also placed hidden cameras in a bathroom.