Not suggesting that, just don't think she was the driving force.
She kicked the anthill.
She passed along things that she heard that were likely said out of frustration. She passed them to people who could do damage.
Say you come home after getting your ass beat arguing a case and losing. You slam your briefcase down on the table and bitch out loud "cheating bastards probably paid the jury."
Your wife overhears. She calls her good friend who is the judicial correspondent for CNN. Two days later there's a report blaring across the nation that "sources say jurors in the Bla Blah Blah case my have been paid..."
That's about how that went.
It was her pissing and moaning that got the ball rolling. Where it went from there, she may not have had a lot to do with -- and she was very quickly muzzled when the mud started to blow back.