# Auditor's Office FOIA Production R1, Brady Custodian (FOIA Response 6-18-25) A two-file production from the Brady custodian within the ATRS R1 FOIA response. The materials are Outlook-format exports from Chief Deputy Auditor Jason Brady's mailbox covering two messages dated 10/23/2024. Both messages are duplicates of content already documented in the ATRS Staff Emails batch ([[atrs-foia-r1-staff-emails]]); the value of this sub-batch is the cross-custodian confirmation of the email chain and the structural information conveyed by the file numbering. The files are labeled ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf and ISRAEL BONDS - 04.pdf. ISRAEL BONDS - 01.pdf and ISRAEL BONDS - 02.pdf exist in the Milligan custodian subfolder of the same FOIA response, held for separate ingest. The numbering is sequential and implies a four-message Israel Bonds correspondence cluster captured across two Auditor's office custodians as of the production date. ## Files ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf (1 page). Brady's sent-folder copy of his 10/23/2024 3:40 PM outreach email to Amy Fecher (APERS executive director) and Mark White (ATRS executive director), with cc to Auditor Dennis Milligan and Auditor's office staff member Wendy Spadoni. Content is the seed message for the ATRS Israel Bonds adoption arc. The text matches the version captured in the ATRS Staff Emails batch at Emails1.pdf p.1. The Outlook export format ("From: Jason Brady / Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2024 3:40 PM / To: Amy Fecher; Mark White / Cc: Auditor Dennis Milligan; Wendy Spadoni") differs from the Thunderbird-format extraction of the same message at ATRS. ISRAEL BONDS - 04.pdf (2 pages). Mark White's 10/23/2024 reply at 5:04 PM, captured in Brady's mailbox by virtue of Brady being on the original Cc list. White's reply is brief: "I'd be glad to meet as well. The November 4-7 dates work for me. I also have availability the week of November 18, if for some reason the visits can or should be split." Amy Fecher's prior reply at 3:58 PM is quoted within the thread. Same content as ATRS Staff Emails Emails1.pdf p.3-4. The timestamp here shows 5:04 PM versus 5:03 PM in the ATRS extraction, a one-minute display rounding difference between mail clients. ## What this sub-batch establishes Three procedural and structural points. First, cross-custodian consistency for the seed message. The 10/23/2024 Brady outreach is now documented in three custodian mailboxes: Brady (sender), White (ATRS recipient), Fecher (APERS recipient). The text is the same across all three. This forecloses any "this message did not exist" or "was altered in one custodian" line. Second, the implied Milligan custody. The numbering ISRAEL BONDS - 03 and ISRAEL BONDS - 04 means at least two earlier or chain-prior Israel Bonds emails exist in the Auditor's office records. Those two files appear in the Milligan custodian subfolder. They will be ingested in the Milligan sub-batch and may contain the originating contact between the DCI representative and Auditor Milligan that Brady's 10/23 message describes ("The Auditor has been contacted by a representative of Israel Bonds and asked if he would arrange a meeting"). Third, the Outlook export format. The Auditor's office uses Outlook, in contrast to ATRS which uses Mozilla Thunderbird. This is relevant only as a chain-of-custody and metadata authentication marker. ## What this sub-batch does not contain The sub-batch contains no Israel Bonds correspondence other than the 10/23/2024 chain. There is no record in this sub-batch of Brady's involvement in or knowledge of any of the subsequent events documented in the ATRS Staff Emails batch: the December 2024 Mryyan FOIA, the DCI promotional pipeline, the 4/15/2025 Capitol meeting (which Brady's contact information was provided for in Milligan's 4/11/2025 email but at which Brady's attendance is not documented), the May 2025 White directive to Graves, the 5/22/2025 Board preview email naming Brady as the carrier of the request, or the 6/2/2025 Board action. If Brady was actively involved in any of those events, the absence of correspondence in his custodial record from the November 2024 through June 2025 period suggests one of three possibilities: (a) Brady's role was limited to the October 2024 introduction and the contact-point listing in the 4/11/2025 confirmation; (b) any subsequent Brady correspondence on Israel Bonds was excluded from the FOIA production by the Auditor's office; or (c) any subsequent Brady correspondence was conducted through channels (telephone, in-person) that did not generate searchable email records. The materials in this sub-batch do not distinguish between these possibilities. The 5/22/2025 White Board preview language ("Jason Brady will be making this request on behalf of the Auditor") indicates Brady's expected participation in the June Board meeting cycle, but no Brady correspondence from May or June 2025 appears in this batch. ## Evidence > "As you both know, the Auditor in his time as treasurer of state requested the legislature to pass legislation that would allow the state or at least the treasurer of state to invest in Israel bonds. The Auditor has been contacted by a representative of Israel Bonds and asked if he would arrange a meeting with both of you and your investment teams in November to visit. On the Auditors behalf, I am making that request of you." > Jason Brady to Amy Fecher and Mark White, ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf p.1, 10/23/2024 > "your meetings are Larry's priority" > Jason Brady, ISRAEL BONDS - 03.pdf p.1, 10/23/2024 > "I'd be glad to meet as well. The November 4-7 dates work for me. I also have availability the week of November 18, if for some reason the visits can or should be split." > Mark White to Jason Brady (Cc) and Amy Fecher, ISRAEL BONDS - 04.pdf p.1, 10/23/2024 5:04 PM ## Cross-References [[atrs-foia-r1-staff-emails]] companion source page where the same emails are captured from the ATRS-side custodians [[jason-brady]] [[mark-white]] [[amy-fecher]] [[dennis-milligan]] entities involved [[auditor-as-dci-channel]] concept page on the Auditor's-office channel [[atrs-board-rules-r1]] companion source page on the Board Rules production from the same FOIA