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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