Man attempts to hire hitman to kill Sarah Palin's lawyer, and, surprise, it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin.

"Wait, you mean everything's not about me?"

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch:  

A former Fairbanks chiropractor who pleaded guilty to possessing illegal weapons tied to a murder-for-hire plot has been sentenced to three years in federal prison. 

Guy Christopher Mannino, 56, offered a machine gun and silencer to an informant for use in shooting attorney John Tiemessen, the attorney for former Gov. Sarah Palin, in a matter unrelated to Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, federal prosecutors say.

Okay so wait, if this has nothing to do with Palin then just what does it have to do with?  

Tiemessen represented another Fairbanks chiropractor in a lawsuit filed by Mannino, who claimed the other chiropractor during a courtesy adjustment had seriously injured his back. 

"The defense, essentially, was that the lawsuit was fraudulent, and though the adjustment occurred, the injury never occurred," Tiemessen said. 

Mannino thought he was going to lose the case, Bottini said at sentencing Wednesday. He solicited a fellow firearms enthusiast and occasional employee to carry out the murder. 

The murder plot was not carried out. The man called Alaska State Troopers and agreed to act as an informant.

So just to make things even more bizarrely coincidental, it turns out that this Mannino fellow was also tied to the Schaeffer Cox trial.

I wrote about it right after Mannino's indictment over that explosion was dismissed by a jury in Fairbanks.

Here is a snippet of a conversation about Mannino recorded by then FBI informant Bill Fulton: 

VERNON: I was going to ask you, you don’t deal with an Mannino, do you? 

FULTON: Who’s Mannino? No. 

VERNON: Okay. 

FULTON: Who is he? 

OLSON: He’s a dealer. 

VERNON: No, no, no, no, no, no. He’s a tour president and everybody — he’s in the ‘dot gov’ thing. He is a worm … 

FULTON: Okay, who is this asshole? (…) 

OLSON: He’s a chiropractor. 

VERNON: He’s the one that — he’s a meddler. 

OLSON: He’s got class three. 

VERNON: Oh, yeah, he’s got — he’s got explosives and everything. But, if you try to buy… 

OLSON: Don’t deal with him. 

VERNON: If you try to buy something from him, all of a sudden you make the list, on his list, and all of his buddies are the cops, FBI, everything. He is such a smartass. 

"All of his buddies are the cops, FBI, everything." Hmm.

I have no idea if this connection means anything, but I did say at the time that it was bizarre that the explosion caused by this guy did not earn him at least some time in jail.

Well clearly his "luck" did not hold out this time around.