# Melissa Corrigan **Chief of Staff, Office of Auditor of State - Dennis Milligan**. Office at 1401 West Capitol Ave., Suite 325, Little Rock, AR 72201. Phone 501-371-2110 (office), 501-580-3869 (cell). Email [email protected]. Per her own email signature in the 12/20/2024 SFOF Communications Survey thread (per [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]]). The wiki's prior framing of Corrigan as "Auditor's-office staff" was inaccurate. Chief of Staff sits at the apex of the office's senior-leadership tier, with operational responsibility for personnel, internal administration, and senior coordination across the office's external relationships. Corrigan's documented role across the Auditor R2 production has four operational components. ## SFOF Communications Survey routing (12/20/2024) The Corrigan custodian production opens with the 12/20/2024 SFOF Communications Survey thread that establishes both her Chief of Staff role and a structural finding about the office's SFOF-channel routing. SFOF Communications Specialist Ryan Chavers ([email protected]) emailed CEO Dr. OJ Oleka the SFOF Communications Questionnaire at 9:37 AM. Within thirty minutes the email reached Corrigan's Auditor's-office inbox. At 10:07 AM Corrigan forwarded it to Stacy Peterson (Auditor's-office Director of Communications) asking "Did you get the email below?" At 10:11 AM Peterson replied "Nope. Do you want me to respond?" Two findings follow. Peterson was not on SFOF Communications-Specialist direct distribution as of late December 2024 despite her Director of Communications role. The wiki's framing at [[stacy-peterson]] of her multi-year operational relationship with SFOF (her own 2/14/2025 statement to Adam Slayton "I have worked with SFOF for several years on behalf of him") describes her engagement with SFOF leadership but does not place her on routine Communications-Specialist distribution. Corrigan as Chief of Staff received the survey first and routed it down to Peterson, indicating that SFOF Communications work first reached the Auditor's-office at the Chief of Staff tier before delegation to Communications. Whether this routing reflects a deliberate Oleka-side relationship management or a default mailmerge target on Corrigan's address is not knowable from the text alone. ## SFOF Spring National Meeting attendance (April 22-25, 2025) Corrigan attended the SFOF Spring National Meeting at Omni Orlando ChampionsGate as one of four Auditor's-office delegates (Milligan as speaker, Brady as operational liaison, Spadoni as orchestrator, and Corrigan). The 4/3/2025 calendar invite documents her as a mandatory participant alongside Milligan, "DENNIS MILLIGAN," Brady, and Spadoni. Her Sent-Items "Accepted" calendar response cross-confirms her attendance. The four-person Auditor's-office delegation establishes the SFOF Spring meeting as a major institutional venue for the office's relationship with the SFOF network. Per the SFOF Spring National Meeting reimbursement policy documented at [[sfof-policy-letter-operation]] (one state official + one staff member per office reimbursed by SFOF), Corrigan's attendance would have been on the Auditor's-office state budget rather than the SFOF subsidy. ## Personnel and HR coordination The Brady-Corrigan text-message thread captured at [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]] documents Corrigan's Chief of Staff role over Auditor's-office personnel administration. On Mon, May 19 at 8:08 AM Brady texted Corrigan from a St. Louis layover: "So wrapping up business so I can enjoy the week, on Friday between apers banking service meetings, and Israel Bond . I got zero time to work on potential merit bonuses. Honestly MC we just need to let Kristina and the management team know we're going to push it back to the next payday, unless you disagree and don't hesitate to give me a call and we'll have a discussion about it." Brady is asking Corrigan to inform Kristina Duke ([[kristina-duke]], Assistant Chief of Staff) and the management team that the merit-bonus work is being pushed back. The exchange establishes Corrigan as the operational principal Brady defers to on personnel administration matters even when the cause is his own scheduling conflicts with APERS banking and Israel Bonds meetings. The above-the-visible portion of the same thread shows an earlier exchange where Corrigan wrote "I say yes, count June" and Brady replied "We agree" with a thumbs-up reaction. The "count June" framing is consistent with payroll or accrual-period administration consistent with Corrigan's HR coordination role; specific interpretation is not knowable from the fragmentary visible text. ## Tracking Berman/DCI engagement pipeline On Thu, May 29 at 10:19 AM, Corrigan messaged Brady: "Put on your radar, Larry's next contract." Brady replied "Ugh yes." The exchange documents Corrigan actively tracking "Larry's next contract" — a reference to Lawrence Berman of DCI — and flagging it to Brady four days before the 6/2 ATRS Board action authorizing Resolution 2025-22. The framing "Larry's next contract" implies a follow-on DCI engagement after the Reams arrangement; the specific contract referenced is not documented in the text. Brady's "Ugh yes" acknowledges both the radar item and a workload burden. The exchange establishes that Corrigan's Chief of Staff portfolio includes pipeline tracking of Berman's Arkansas engagements as a coherent line of business for the office, not merely as a one-time outreach event. ## Cross-confirmations of documented patterns Corrigan's mailbox cross-confirms several documented patterns. Approximately 17 SFOF Spring National Meeting logistics emails (room-block reminders, keynote announcements, registration confirmations, trip information, reimbursement policy) match the [[sfof-policy-letter-operation]] cadence already documented in Brady and Milligan. Approximately 5 SFOF newsletter and Constant Contact mass-distribution items (including the 11/4/2024 Pre-Election Update with the Stacy Garrity Israel Bonds case study) match the [[sfof-state-financial-officer-network]] mass-distribution to Auditor's-office staff. The Prospr Aligned launch press release ([[prospr-aligned]]) and the 11/13/2024 Wall PROJECT_PROPOSAL Dropbox share reached Corrigan in addition to Milligan and Peterson; this is the third confirmed instance of the same share. The 4 Mike Huckabee Ambassador news clippings in Deleted-Items document Corrigan's collection of Israel-political-context news fragments. The 6/3/2025 Wickline coverage of the ATRS Israel Bonds vote landed in her Inbox and was retained. ## What Corrigan does not do in the documentary record Corrigan does not appear to have evaluated the Israel Bonds investment substantively, drafted any Israel Bonds correspondence, attended any DCI promotional event, or participated in the 4/14-15 Capitol tour eight-meeting schedule. Her documented role is internal-office senior coordination, not external-facing DCI engagement. The wiki's prior thin-entity framing of Corrigan as merely a SFOF Spring National Meeting attendee was a function of the limited Calendar-only evidence available before this batch; the Corrigan custodian production substantially expands her documented operational footprint. ## Evidence > "Melissa Corrigan / Chief of Staff / Office of Auditor of State - Dennis Milligan / 1401 West Capitol Ave. Suite 325 / Little Rock, AR 72201 / Phone: 501-371-2110 Cell: 501-580-3869 / Email: [email protected]" > Corrigan signature block, Re Quick Communications Survey.pdf p.1 and FW Quick Communications Survey.pdf p.1, 12/20/2024 > "Did you get the email below?" > Melissa Corrigan to Stacy Peterson, FW Quick Communications Survey.pdf p.1, 12/20/2024 10:07 AM > "Nope. Do you want me to respond?" > Stacy Peterson to Melissa Corrigan, Re Quick Communications Survey.pdf p.1, 12/20/2024 10:11 AM > "Subject: SFOF Spring National Meeting. Location: Omni Orlando at ChampionsGate. Start: Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:00:00 AM. End: Friday, April 25, 2025 12:00:00 AM. Organizer: Wendy Spadoni. Mandatory participants: Wendy Spadoni; Dennis Milligan; DENNIS MILLIGAN; Jason Brady; Melissa Corrigan" > SFOF Spring National Meeting.pdf p.1 (Milligan calendar; Corrigan accepted invitation in her Sent-Items) > "Honestly MC we just need to let Kristina and the management team know we're going to push it back to the next payday, unless you disagree" > Jason Brady iMessage to Melissa Corrigan, JB to MC text 2025-06-24.pdf p.1, Mon, May 19 at 8:08 AM > "Put on your radar, Larry's next contract." > Melissa Corrigan iMessage to Jason Brady, JB to MC text 2025-06-24.pdf p.1, Thu, May 29 at 10:19 AM > "Ugh yes" > Jason Brady reply to Corrigan, JB to MC text 2025-06-24.pdf p.1, Thu, May 29 ## Cross-References [[dennis-milligan]] her principal; Auditor of State [[jason-brady]] Chief Deputy Auditor; parallel senior-leadership role (policy/external) to Corrigan's Chief of Staff role (internal/personnel) [[stacy-peterson]] Director of Communications; Corrigan routes SFOF Communications work down to her [[wendy-spadoni]] Executive Assistant to the Auditor; parallel coordinator role for scheduling [[kristina-duke]] Assistant Chief of Staff; Corrigan's subordinate per the merit-bonus text [[lawrence-berman]] DCI National Managing Director whose Arkansas engagement pipeline Corrigan tracks [[auditor-office-org-structure]] concept page on the senior-leadership tier in which Corrigan is the Chief of Staff principal [[sfof-policy-letter-operation]] [[sfof-state-financial-officer-network]] SFOF networks Corrigan participates in through SFOF Spring attendance and Communications survey routing [[auditor-as-dci-channel]] concept page; Corrigan tracks "Larry's next contract" as part of the office's DCI engagement portfolio [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]] source page (primary) [[auditor-foia-r2-milligan]] source page citing the SFOF Spring National Meeting calendar invite that first documented Corrigan ## Auditor R3 3-3-26 production: Brady Ark Times article forward The Auditor R3 production at [[auditor-foia-r3-3-3-26]] documents Brady's 7/12/2025 6:52 AM iPhone forward of the Mark White Arkansas Times article notification to Corrigan and Stacy Peterson (2 minutes before Brady's 6:54 AM Berman forward). The internal Auditor's-office routing of post-publication Israel Bonds coverage went through Corrigan as Chief of Staff alongside Peterson as Director of Communications. Corrigan does not appear elsewhere in the R3 production. The Corrigan custodian production was not part of this batch (the R3 production covered Brady, Milligan, and Spadoni custodians only). Whether Corrigan continued tracking "Larry's next contract" in the post-vote period (per the 5/29/2025 iMessage at [[auditor-foia-r2-residual]]) is not knowable from the R3 production alone.