SableGate: Wagging the Dog in Lebo?

Someone even more cynical than me theorizes that Margery Sable wanted the Mt. Lebanon School District to appeal the allegedly too-low real estate assessments of School Board members, and that she was paid $500,000 as hush money. The resulting brouhaha is just a big cover story -- part of the plan. Sounds pretty far-fetched to me, even Wag the Dog-ish. But who knows.