Judicial watchdog resigns -- after misreporting job status
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
The director of Georgia's judicial ethics watchdog commission collects state wages and his state retirement benefits in a billing deal that tests the limits of the state's pension laws.
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.
