I believe it happened, honestly. When your whole party is full of degenerates with money, they're easy to blackmail. Adams broke the rules when he spoke out against illegal immigration, so now they throw the book at him.

that said, Statute of Limitations is a thing for a reason. If she was truly bothered by it, she should have said so and filed at least in the 90s. There's no legitimate reason to bring this up 30 years after the fact.