I don't know enough about this particular situation to have an educated opinion. But in my experience with these kinds of situations, people often misconstrue

I don't know enough about this particular situation to have an educated opinion. But in my experience with these kinds of situations, people often misconstrue and sometimes even knowingly misrepresent them not because a rational reason to fabricate them, but just because of one or the other irrational psychological reason to do so. People are not rational, and the mere fact that they wouldn't get anything doesn't mean that they would do it.