Here’s the background of what you mentioned. Sounds like she covered up for someone, and in turn, failed upwards.
https://karlstack.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-claudine-gay
Pocahontas Warren with another female academic (I can’t remember her name!) fabricated housing data in a book they wrote back in the early 2000s.
Warren’s co-author later became president of UVA. I think the woman left there under a cloud.