She promotes herself as an "investigative journalist" and the article was published under the Reality Check subsection:
Basically no one has read Gosney's self-published smut. It has
six reviews on Amazon and is ranked #81,572 in Literature & Fiction (Kindle Store). He's contending with AI-generated trash at the absolute bottom of the barrel. The only reason anyone cares is because he was foolish enough to accept a fairly high-profile role working for the Miami DA's office and self-published this under his own name instead of using a pseudonym. It sounds like the Herald has an ongoing beef with the DA's office, and this was just useful ammunition. So it probably was politically motivated, but Gosney also brought this upon himself by being dumb enough to put his name on this.