By KTUU News Staff Lisa Demer, Anchorage Daily News AP

7:30 p.m. AKST, December 8, 2012
ANCHORAGE, Alaska—

An Alaska state worker has suddenly resigned, amid news accounts questioning how he got the job in the first place.
   
Paul Pozonsky was a judge in Pennsylvania before he quit under an investigative cloud in June. He went on to become a workers' compensation hearing officer with the Labor Department in October, and the Anchorage Daily News (http://is.gd/ZwpRom) last week questioned whether his family connections had anything to do with that.
   
Pozonsky is the brother-in-law of Chuck Kopp, an aide to Eagle River Republican Sen. Fred Dyson. Kopp was also picked by then-Gov. Sarah Palin to serve as public safety commissioner, but lasted just 14 days before resigning amid sexual harassment allegations from a former job.
   
Pozonsky quit his state job on Thursday, the same day a Daily News reporter called the Labor Department for answers.
   
The newspaper said efforts to contact him for comment failed.