Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will not face federal charges over allegations he transported the head of a dead whale from Massachusetts to New York decades ago and kept the animal’s skull at his home.
A NOAA spokesperson confirmed the agency’s Office of Law Enforcement investigation of the claim, first made by Kennedy’s daughter Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy in a 2012 article published in Town & Country magazine, was closed Oct. 16 after authorities “determined the allegation to be unfounded.”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said the story is false.
Shortly after suspending his campaign as an independent presidential candidate on Aug. 23, Kennedy threw his support behind Donald Trump’s candidacy for a second presidential term and become a surrogate at campaign rallies. The story from the magazine article resurfaced after Kennedy endorsed the Republican ticket.
