RFK Jr. Earned A Million Dollars From His Anti-Vax Work That He Previously Claimed Was ‘Unpaid’


President-elect Donald Trump is now trying to get his cabinet nomination approved and that includes one of his most controversial choices: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. RFK was chosen to run the Department of Health and Human Services, which is a bit like when Trump chose Alex Jones to lead the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Kennedy, long a conspiracy theorist and believer in science, announced that he would completely up government approach to public health.

Whenever an incoming president makes cabinet nominations, the nominees are subject to intense scrutiny, which is currently the case with Kennedy. While there is a surprising lack of animal-related scandals so far, journalists have discovered a number of financial irregularities that seem worth investigating.

On Wednesday, The Daily Beast revealed that Kennedy underreported the income he earned from his work at an “anti-vax” nonprofit by about $431,156.72. In press appearances, Kennedy previously claimed that his work was for Children’s Health Defensewhich he founded in 2007, “was not paid for.” In fact, Kennedy took money from the non-profit and reported it. He first reported that he earned $731,470.53 in 2022 and 2023. However, Kennedy actually earned $1.2 million from his non-profit work in the past two years and a total of $2.2 million between 2017 and 2023, the Beast reported.

Kennedy admitted that an “inadvertent error” in his previous financial disclosures led to the underreporting of his income from the organization.

“The purpose of this letter is to correct an inadvertent error in the financial disclosure report that I signed on June 30, 2023, and amended on August 25, 2023,” Kennedy told the US Office of Government Ethics in a letter sent in December, as quoted by The Daily Beast. “In my initial, and amended, disclosure, I disclosed the wrong amount of income for Children’s Health Defense f/k/a World Mercury Project by using net salary received versus gross salary.”

Gizmodo has reached out to the Trump transition team for comment.

It’s possible that a man as rich as Kennedy never thought of this kind of income as worth talking about. Perhaps making a million dollars is considered “free” work by the millionaire scion from a political dynasty. To the average American, however, it is still considered serious money. “I didn’t get paid for it,” Kennedy previously told Tucker Carlson. “It’s probably the worst career move I’ve ever made.”

Kennedy promised to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA), which, in theory, sounds great. However, many of the ideas that Kennedy had about federal health policy were feasible making tons of people sick. Kennedy’s confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill are on and, already, the Trump transition team is trying to make him less intimidating. The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump’s transition team recently sidelined several Kennedy aides because of their vaccine-related beliefs. Meanwhile, this reported that Heather Flick, a former Trump official from his first administration, was tapped as Kennedy’s chief of staff at HHS. As a former senior Trump health official involved in the transition discussions told Politico: “The White House really wants to make sure they have their people around him.”



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