Liquor store owner gets nearly 4 years in Jack Johnson corruption case

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A Prince George’s County liquor store owner was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for his role in a pay-for-play scheme involving former county excecutive Jack Johnson.

Amrik Singh Melhi, 52, was sentenced to 46 months behind bars Tuesday and ordered to pay $975,000 in forfeitures to the government, making him the latest person to be sentenced in a wide-ranging federal probe of public corruption in Prince George’s.

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