This got scam written all over it.
A guess is that the original was to pull some sweet coin via the medias, then,
God bless their cotton picking souls,
the PC vigilantes opened up a whole new bank of taxpayer funded Compo cheddar!! ka- ching central. What the wonderful cash cow, ol mates have lurch across. Ride that pleasure baby until the dry cleaner is employed to tidy up.
Wish my career could tarnish so bad. So bad that i need the employs of gardener for my slash of Riviera real estate.
If I had to guess from the little attention I've paid, seems like she got busted starkers in the boss' office and then got creative with whatever version of the truth was gonna get her out of it.