An administrative law judge resigned from her post in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after KRQE-TV looked into her second job as a judge for San Felipe Pueblo.

Judge Anita Reina's superiors knew about her job with the tribe's court. She was supposed to put in for leave with the city whenever she worked on the reservation.

But the KRQE investigation showed that Reina continued to draw her city salary at the same time she was working for the tribe nearly every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. She was also being paid by the tribe.

“I think it’s a deceitful action by an employee that clearly should know – she’s an administrative law judge – that when you are paid by the taxpayers of Albuquerque to work 40 hours a week, that’s what you owe them,” Rob Perry, the city’s chief administrative officer, told KRQE.

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Judge Reina paid by city, taxpayers for absences (KRQE-TV 4/26)