Seriously, it's never, ever a dull moment in Alaska:

Bill Bobrick, a once-prominent lobbyist who cooperated with the FBI in its investigation of corruption in Alaska politics, will serve five months in federal prison followed by five months of house arrest for his conviction on a conspiracy charge.

U.S. District Judge John Sedwick handed down the sentence this morning. It was the minimum that Bobrick, 52, could have received under federal guidelines, which are advisory.

And at the hearing today, surprising information came out about reported threats made by state Sen. Lesil McGuire, R-Anchorage, who is married to the man that Bobrick helped put away, former state Rep. Tom Anderson.

Doug Pope, Bobrick's lawyer, asked Sedwick to consider that Bobrick testified against Anderson despite the threats by McGuire.

Bobrick, who had a long list of clients who paid him to represent them before the municipality of Anchorage, was one of the main witnesses last summer at Anderson's trial. A jury convicted Anderson of seven felonies, including bribery and money laundering, and he was sentenced to five years. Anderson will report to federal prison in Oregon on Monday.

Anderson was indicted and arrested in December, and it was soon apparent that Bobrick would be a witness against him, Pope said.

Early in 2007, McGuire called both Bobrick and his wife, Jessica Bury, who was in medical school in Minnesota, Pope said. She said that she was hearing Bury might have a hard time being licensed to practice medicine in Alaska.

"Bobrick understood the call to be a threat that if he testified favorably for the government, Lesil McGuire would take steps to see that Jessica did not obtain her medical license," Pope told Sedwick in court.