Three years before a criminal investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of minors by former youth leaders at New Albany’s Faith Life Church, the state investigated the church’s leadership and financial controls.
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost in early February recused himself and his office’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation from this year’s investigation because he said he’s friends with church founders Gary and Drenda Keesee , whose son, Tom Keesee, and another former church youth leader have been accused of the abuse.
But he didn’t have to do the same in 2022, when his office’s charitable law section investigated the financial allegations because he said he didn’t know the Keesees then…