* In another seven years, a federal grand jury would indict Lamb on tax evasion charges for failing to report $30,000 in gifts given to him by a casino mogul, later calling it a loan. But even then Lamb seemed to be bulletproof. In acquitting but not actually clearing the sheriff, a federal judge rendered the opinion that “many fringe benefits come to a public official which may be accepted along with the honest discharge of duties.” Corruption, in other words, was in the eye of the beholder.