Nonprofit paid RFK Jr. $20,000 a week before his leave last year

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revamped $20,000 per week as chairman of Youngsters’s Well being Protection earlier than stepping away from the nonprofit in 2023 to run for president, new tax filings present.

In April 2023, Kennedy introduced his presidential run and left his publish as chairman and chief authorized counsel of the group he based in 2007. Although he solely spent three and a half months at Youngsters’s Well being Protection final yr, he walked away with $326,056 — greater than doubling his pay fee for a shorter tenure. It isn’t clear precisely when Kennedy stopped receiving a wage from the group. STAT reached out for remark.

Within the filings, Youngsters’s Well being Protection describes itself as a nonprofit working to “restore and defend the well being of kids by eliminating environmental exposures, holding accountable events accountable, and establishing safeguards to forestall future hurt of kids’s well being.” It’s extensively identified for seeding vaccine skepticism, with Kennedy as its most seen advocate.