He wouldn't be mentioning her name without her knowing. Clearly she knew he'd been looking into this for ages and they wouldn't go into this prosecution without both having a grasp of the evidence. Since we're only going into the skin of the issue with one like of condemning evidence, chances are this will be some kind of indirect confrontation of the aide's shady acts in some way.
Also the art style seems to be a little hard to make out recently. Like, it's a beautiful unorthodox style, but a few panels just seem really jumbled with lines in certain cases and it's difficult to see what's what. I love it but there does have to be a line between freaky and fine detail