This is a juicy one, it's long, but it's interesting

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This is a juicy one, it's long, but it's interesting - I'm having troubles deciding what to do /adv/

>22, graduated from university
>move back to local community
>local elections are this week
>work in public relations/communications for government administration where its easy to get bribed to shill for certain candidate
>over half of council is my family, those running for council are family too
>drinking at bar, get phone call from cousin who's running for Councillor
>says she wants me to post something on social media, basically a leak about another candidate
>tell her she has access to all accounts anyway so she can do it
>suspicious.jpeg
>see shit storm ensure online about confidential information about other candidate obviously posted by my cousin
>go home immediately to damage control
>people think it's me since only 4 people have control over social media accounts, 1 of which already publicly announced it wasn't her
>going to manager tomorrow to deal with this
>don't want to lose job

Here's the thing, I already knew what my cousin was doing, but I didn't want to interfere with her plan to ruin the other candidate's image. (I'm running for Councillor in next year's election so having her and basically on my side still would be a huge win.)

I fear that she might throw me under the bus though.

What's the logical action from this point? Throw her under the bus and deny, deny, deny? Or go with her plan and hope it fucking works and risk losing my job?

On another important note, what she did may have been illegal since it was a confidential document that was leaked. Lawyers may be involved - I'm asking around and it's still to be determined whether they're needed. Anyway, there's texts from me basically portrayed me giving her permission to post on social media, even though it's not even my place to allow her - it's my manager's responsibility. I fear she may misconstrue those texts, even though I know I didn't do anything wrong, except willfully ignore it.