Nellie’s faces $5,000 fine and suspension for June incident
DCist, Andrew Kline, a lawyer for Nellie’s accepted the offer, foregoing the right of Doug Schantz, the owner of Nellie’s, to defend himself or offer additional testimony about mitigating circumstances.Nellie’s must pay the fine within 120 days, and potentially faces another 17 days of suspension, which would be added to the current 7-day suspension, if subsequent complaints are filed against the bar and it is found to have violated the terms of its ABRA agreement. Nellie’s must also draft and submit a revised security plan to ABRA within 10 days — something that it either lacked or failed to comply with during Pride weekend.See also: Nellie’s is pledging to “do better” after protests.