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Judicial watchdog resigns -- after misreporting job status

By Jim Galloway
April 27, 2015

Over at the Daily Report, the great Robin McDonald has scored one:

The director of the state judicial watchdog agency has resigned following revelations that he was being paid full-time wages of $120,000 a year for what he reported was part-time work to avoid having to defer his retirement benefits.

The resignation came hours after

Explorethe legal news outlet published this:

Former Superior Court Judge Ronnie Joe Lane, who retired last year to head the Judicial Qualifications Commission, bills the agency about 20 hours of work a week but is making what was the former full-time director's $120,000 salary. But Lane says he is working more than 40 hours a week at what he says is really a full-time job.

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Jim Galloway, the newspaper’s former political columnist, was a writer and editor at the AJC for four decades.

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