HARRISBURG — Gov. Ed Rendell said Tuesday he will review whether the chairman of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission should keep the job despite income he received from a taxpayer-financed consulting job controlled by former Sen. Vincent Fumo, whom a federal jury convicted of 137 corruption charges.

A top state senator, meanwhile, called on commission Chairman Mitchell Rubin to explain why he should not resign the post and return the money he received from the consulting work that Fumo's prosecutors called a ghost job.

"If there is not an adequate explanation, he should do both immediately," Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi, R-Delaware, said in a statement Tuesday.

The pressure on Rubin came a day after a federal jury in Philadelphia convicted Fumo on all the charges against him, two of which focus on Rubin's separate $30,000-a-year, five-year contract with Senate Democrats, which ended in 2004.

"I think that's something that warrants investigation," Rendell told reporters. "I know the jury convicted on all counts, so we'll have to take a look at that."

The case against Fumo did not involve Rubin's turnpike commission post, and Rubin was not charged with any wrongdoing. Rubin was initially nominated to the turnpike commission in 1998 by then-Gov. Tom Ridge, a Republican.

Rendell cautioned that he is not familiar with the details of all the trial testimony and does not know whether he has the power to rescind Rubin's appointment to the commission.

The top lawyer for Senate Republicans, Stephen C. MacNett, said he believes Rendell has the authority to unilaterally fire an appointee.