Talk about something coming back to haunt

Reading this story from the New York Times about the woman who resigned from her dean of admissions post at M.I.T. after it was leaked by someone she never received a Bachelor’s Degree oh, about thirty years ago, which is required for her job, and which she seemed to have lied about having years ago, made me think it’s a realist novel concerning the gray area of situations like this one waiting to happen, trying to tackle workplace ethics in relation to someone who seems to have also done a whole lot of good, if those quoted can be assumed to be valid.