Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday he is under investigation over a decades-old incident in which he decapitated a dead whale and took its skull across state lines.
Kennedy acknowledged receiving the letter last week at a campaign event for former President Trump. The report comes weeks after left-leaning environmental groups revisited the whale issue and called for an investigation.
““I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying I was being investigated for taking a whale specimen 20 years ago,” Kennedy said Saturday.
“This is all weaponisation by the government against political opponents,” he added.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under investigation for once transporting a whale skull across state lines. (CBS/Screenshot)
Kennedy never revealed details about the incident, but it first came to light in a 2012 interview with Kennedy's daughter, Kick Kennedy. Town and Country Magazine.
In an interview, Kik recounted how his father cut off the head of a dead whale, tied it to the roof of his car and drove it from the Massachusetts coast to Mount Kisco, New York.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. blasted the “mainstream media aligned with the Democratic National Committee” and accused them of orchestrating Harris' rise.
The left-leaning Center for Biodiversity Action Fund had argued that the dead animals were protected by the Marine Mammal Protection and Endangered Species Act and that it was illegal to possess any parts of them.
Kennedy claims left-wing groups are trying to “weaponize” the government against him. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Additionally, they argued, this was likely a felony violation of the Lacey Act of 1900, which “prohibits the transportation of any wild animal, live or dead, that has become property in violation of any state, federal, or international regulation or law.”
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“Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale fluid would pour out onto the car window. It was the most disgusting thing on earth,” Kick told the magazine, adding that the incident happened around 1994.
“We all had plastic bags over our heads with holes in them. People on the highway were giving us the middle finger and it was a normal thing for us,” she added.
Kennedy dropped out of the presidential race last month and endorsed former President Trump. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
The Center for Biological Diversity revisited the story just days after Kennedy dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and endorsed Trump.
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The whale incident isn't Kennedy's only recent controversy over dead animals: the president also admitted to dumping a bear carcass in New York City's Central Park more than a decade ago.
