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The Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Monday it’s investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allegedly decapitating a lifeless whale carcass and transporting it house 20 years in the past.
On Saturday, Kennedy mentioned at a marketing campaign occasion in Arizona he acquired a letter from the Nationwide Marine Fisheries Companies, a corporation that falls beneath NOAA, informing him he was underneath investigation for an incident he mentioned occurred 20 years in the past through which he collected a lifeless whale specimen.
A spokesperson for NOAA confirmed to CNN on Monday that Kennedy is underneath investigation for the incident.
“It’s lengthy standing NOAA follow to not touch upon open investigations,” the spokesperson mentioned.
The story resurfaced shortly after he suspended his presidential marketing campaign final month after a 2012 interview with Kennedy’s daughter Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy revealed in City & Nation Journal was recirculated on social media. Within the interview, Kennedy’s daughter recollects her father utilizing a chainsaw to chop off the top of a lifeless whale carcass on the seashore close to their Cape Cod household house and driving the whale’s head again to New York.
Following the story gaining consideration on social media, the Heart for Organic Variety Motion Fund known as for NOAA to research Kennedy over the incident, arguing his actions might have jeopardized scientific analysis.
Kennedy mentioned Saturday he wrote a letter to NOAA in response to being knowledgeable he’s underneath investigation, accusing the group of killing marine wildlife with “big offshore wind farms off the East Coast.”