{"id":1978563,"date":"2023-07-20T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-mike-lee-sounds-off-on-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-award\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T14:37:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T18:37:22","slug":"watch-mike-lee-sounds-off-on-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-mike-lee-sounds-off-on-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-award\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Mike Lee Speaks Out About Ruth Bader Ginsburg&#8217;s Enigmatic $1M Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-mike-lee-sounds-off-on-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-award%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1978563&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p><h2>The Washington Free Beacon reported that Ginsburg could have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-nominee-with-ties-to-environmental-terrorists-violated-ethics-rules-by-concealing-finances-watchdog-group-says\/\" title=\"Biden Nominee With Ties To Environmental Terrorists Violated Ethics Rules By Concealing Finances, Watchdog Group Says\">violated ethics rules<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure id=\"main-video-embed\">\n  <\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>    The late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader \u2062Ginsburg would have found herself in hot water for concealing the ultimate recipients \u2062of a $1 million prize she won from a liberal billionaire\u2019s foundation in \u200c2019, according to Senator Mike Lee (R., \u2064Utah). He\u200d made this charge during a Senate \u2062Judiciary Committee \u200dmeeting on Thursday.\n  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    &#8220;There is one allegation, it\u2019s come to light fairly recently with regard to the late justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg\u2063 \u2026 to the effect that she \u200breceived a $1 million award that went unreported,&#8221; the Utah \u200dRepublican said in reference to a <em>Washington \u200cFree Beacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> \u2063 on conflict of interest concerns \u2063surrounding Ginsburg\u2019s acceptance\u2062 of the $1 million prize from the Berggruen\u2063 Institute.\n  <\/p>\n<p>    \u200cGinsburg pledged when she accepted the prize in\u200c December \u20642019 that she would donate her \u2062winnings to more than 60 charities that reflected her personal causes. But the Berggruen Institute refused to provide \u200dthe full list of recipients to the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, saying the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-mike-lee-sounds-off-on-ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-award\/\" title=\"VIDEO: Mike Lee Speaks Out About Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Enigmatic M Prize\">late liberal justice \u200bwished<\/a> to keep \u2062the charities confidential. Experts said the lack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-malliotakis-aoc-should-have-called-for-investigation-into-gov-cuomo-sooner\/\" title=\"Rep. Malliotakis: AOC should have called for investigation into Gov. Cuomo sooner\">transparency surrounding<\/a> the recipients of\u200c Ginsburg\u2019s prize raises the possibility that \u200bsome could have had business before the Court prior to\u2062 her death.\n  <\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n      <\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    \u2062 &#8220;This\u2062 might have some very significant ramifications if she was still serving on\u200c the Court,&#8221; Lee said of Ginsburg\u2019s prize. &#8220;We don\u2019t yet know exactly what was\u200c done with that, whether she carried out the apparent intention of the stated\u2062 purpose of intent at the outset to donate it to charity.&#8221;\n  <\/p>\n<p>    Lee\u2019s \u200dcomments came during a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting to mark \u2064up a Supreme Court ethics law led by Democratic Sens.\u2064 Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) \u200dand Dick Durbin (Ill.) to crack down on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-mysterious-1-million-prize\/\" title=\"Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Enigmatic M Prize\">alleged ethical transgressions<\/a> from\u2064 conservative members of the Court. The move follows attacks from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-nevada-a-corrupt-cash-for-votes-scheme-is-hiding-in-plain-sight\/\" title=\"In Nevada, A Corrupt Cash-For-Votes Scheme Is Hiding In Plain Sight\">mainstream media outlets<\/a> \u2063such as ProPublica against conservative justices\u2063 Clarence Thomas \u200band Samuel Alito that Republicans have cast as unfair efforts to instill a crisis of confidence in the Supreme Court.\n  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Free Beacon stated that Ginsburg may have breached ethics rules. Senator Mike Lee accused the late Supreme Court justice of concealing the $1 million prize&#8217;s ultimate recipients from a liberal billionaire&#8217;s foundation in 2019, which would have put her in trouble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":1978564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}