RFK Jr. Cape Cod Whale Decapitation Investigation Closes With No Charges Filed

CAPE COD, MA — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will dodge federal charges for reportedly cutting the head off of a dead whale and transporting it on top of the family minivan from Cape Cod to New York City.

Monday reports confirm that NOAA's Office of Law Enforcement investigated but was closed earlier this month after determining that the allegation was "unfounded."

Kennedy told the crowd at a Trump campaign event in September that he was under investigation for beheading and transporting a beached whale he found on Cape Cod to New York.

In August, the Center for Biological Diversity Action Fund called on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to open an investigation into Kennedy after a story told by his daughter was resurfaced.

In 2012, Town & Country interviewed Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, who shared that, in 1994, a whale carcass washed ashore near the family compound in Hyannis Port, on Cape Cod. Kennedy shared that her father, upon hearing that the whale was on the shore outside, used a chainsaw to behead the whale before tying it to the roof of the family van and driving it back to New York.

"Every time we accelerated on the highway, whale juice would pour into the windows of the car, and it was the rankest thing on the planet," Kennedy said in the interview. "We all had plastic bags over our heads with mouth holes cut out, and people on the highway were giving us the finger, but that was just normal day-to-day stuff for us."

RFK Jr. has said the story is false, despite his daughter being the source.

This, of course, comes after New York City residents solved a nearly decade-old mystery of how a dead bear cub ended up in Central Park next to an abandoned bike. Kennedy Jr. took responsibility for dropping the animal's body in Central Park almost 10 years ago.

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