Nearly 17 months ago, former Illinois Republican Party Chairman Pat Brady stood outside of Democratic candidate for governor JB Pritzker’s Gold Coast home, surrounded by blown-up pictures of the luxurious interior of Pritzker’s “uninhabitable” second mansion next door, which looked anything but unlivable.

Illinois Republican Party Chairman Bill Brady said J.B. Pritzker engaged in a “scheme to defraud” taxpayers. [Hannah Meisel/The Daily Line]