Maybe, but not the way this article was written. I mean, she's quoted saying that he's missed the last six months of payments. She sounds a bit shrill but otherwise it doesn't paint her as the pathetic one.

It sounds much more like someone else thought it would make him look bad. But then from everything I've heard he's got no shortage of enemies at the Ministry, so maybe someone wants to try to get rid of him and thinks this is a step toward that.