Corey Pratt was the investigator for the Ohio Attorney General’s Office. According to his testimony, he had a two-year criminal justice degree. He was a road officer at a small-town PD. Wilmington, Ohio for 15 years and the last 2 or 3 years he helped being an investigator due to limited resources. At trial, he stated he was in criminal justice for 25 years and 18 as a police officer. So at that total he was with the AG for seven years. January 2020 was the trial. So, PHCA’s case could have actually been one of his first cases if not his first. While all of his testimony will not be typed here, he was clearly a small-town officer whose job was to prove guilt not eliminate guilt. On several occasions, he would make sarcastic testimony but push accusations off on Ashley Clifton. He is important because his testimony states a few things about policy that another AG employee (Ashley Clifton) does differently. You will see the details of his witch hunt and what motivated his continuous mission to find something. He talks little about evidence; he leaves that up to Ashley. However, with all due respect to law enforcement officers, it is pretty easy to see Mr. Pratt was not seemingly interested in justice as much as he was making this “political case” one of his first non-failures.

Pg. 386 Corey Pratt “We ask for bank records. When I say bank records, we generally start with, I need the organizations account numbers. We don’t ask for individual account numbers. I would not be asking for the President of the organization, his bank records.”

First incorrect statement. Later in Ashley Clifton’s testimony, you will see that she requested the bank records of Kristie Koester, which we believe is illegal since no complaints were filed against her and they do not have criminal prosecution powers.

Pg. 391 Channa Beard Prosecutor “Could you recall when these complaints came to the charitable section?” Pratt “They came to my desk around July 2013, if I remember correctly.” Interestingly this is a month after the Serda family left. 14 complaints.

Pg. 392 Beard “And can you recall what some of those issues were that were contained in the complaints?” Pratt “Lots. Basically things that were being addressed was that initially there was a board meeting and, it was reported, there was a coup or an overthrow of the board that was attempted. The president of the board was removed. And a new group was put in and that group was basically stealing money.” Pg. 400 Beard “I want to get to the red flags here in a minute. Going back to the fundraising, was there ever any mention of Visalus?” Pratt “Yes, ma’am. That was another one of the fundraisers where, and to the best of my knowledge that I can recall on this he was selling, he being Jason was selling Visalus.”