LINCOLN — The former executive director of the Nebraska Liquor Control Commission faces seven felony charges, most of which allege that he deprived Nebraskans of his honest work as a public official by letting two Lincoln strip clubs give him cash for lap dances, sexual favors and provide free drinks.

He visited often enough that employees tallied the amount his visits pulled from the cash register on sticky notes left for their bosses that they labeled “COB” for the cost of the clubs doing business, according to a federal indictment of the state official unsealed this week.

Part of the state official’s job was to help the commission dole out, discipline and rescind Nebraska liquor licenses. That role included weighing in after police investigations of rival Omaha strip clubs the indictm

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