You will recall the False Claims Act lawsuit by the so-called "whistleblower" Rigsby sisters -- the ones who received no-show (or at least "very little show") jobs at $150,000 a year from Dickie Scruggs while being material witnesses in Katrina cases prosecuted by Scruggs, and while being called before a state grand jury as star witnesses. Why these facts are not endlessly repeated, as they should be, in any press story about the Rigsby sisters, is beyond me. Nothing personal against them, but in contrast to the days when they were feted on such shows as ABC's 20/20, they have lost all cachet and nearly all their credibility.Ex rel. Rigsby, the False Claims Act lawsuit they filed, under seal, in April 2006 with Scruggs at the helm, is now in the c
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