Yup. Sounds like a fairly classic case of workplace sociopathy -- the sociopath who gets promoted because they tell lies and bully the folks below them into obedience. (Not the kind of -- much rarer -- sociopath who is violent or robs banks, but still a royal pain in the ass to run across in a business context because any attempt you make to deal with them technically will result in manipulative social retaliation rather than "oh, my bad".)