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01/15/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/15/2025 12:45

NEW: RFK Jr. Lied About Profiting Off Dangerous Conspiracy Theories, Funneled Millions Out of Charity Arrow

Once again RFK Jr. is proving he is unfit, untrustworthy, and unqualified to lead America's health agency - but new reporting sheds even more light on his history of financial mismanagement, corruption, and lying on financial disclosure forms while profiting off of dangerous conspiracy theories. The American people deserve public health officials who will put their health and wellbeing first - not a grifter focused on enriching himself and his friends.

Here's a look at the latest coverage of RFK Jr.'s long record of lying, corruption, and incompetence:

Daily Beast: "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars he made from his anti-vax crusade, Donald Trump's transition team has admitted to the Daily Beast.

"Trump's pick for health secretary previously said his career as the founder, chairman and general counsel of the nonprofit Children's Health Defense was 'unpaid' and 'the opposite of a profit motive.'

"But documents obtained by the Daily Beast show that Kennedy-after being nominated by Trump for his Cabinet-then quietly amended those forms to disclose that he had actually earned far more from his anti-vaccine nonprofit: a total of $1.2 million.

"When he was a candidate for president during the 2024 election-first as a Democrat, then as an independent-Kennedy significantly underreported how much he made in the last two years he led the group: an omission of $431,156.72.

"He blamed the miscalculation on what he called 'an inadvertent error' because he conflated 'net pay' with 'gross wages,' an odd mistake for a multimillionaire who can afford professional accountants."

Mother Jones: "At RFK Jr.-Led Environmental Group, Insiders Questioned How He Spent $67 Million"

"At issue was at least $67 million that Kennedy's group had received and passed along over the previous six years-an eye-popping amount for a non-profit that prior to this influx of money had annual revenues of about $4 million, according to its tax filings. …

"His letter was prompted by a legal complaint that claimed WKA had 'funneled millions of dollars to the Bahamas' to assist Louis Bacon, a hedge-fund billionaire

"Through 2023, the amount of money routed through Kennedy's organization to finance what was described in its tax records as a program in the Caribbean totaled $79 million. … Former WKA staff say this is a tremendously high figure for such cases and assert there was no sufficient public documentation that this funding was appropriately handled.

"Nygård listed a host of people and organizations supposedly involved or knowledgable of this alleged scheme, including Waterkeeper Alliance, Kennedy, and Fred Smith, a Bahamian lawyer and co-founder and board member of Save the Bays, the group that Kennedy and Bacon had helped to start."