In an 18-page order, a federal judge in Michigan dealt the latest blow to Robert F. Kennedy's bid to have his name taken off the Nov. 5 ballot.

"I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago," he stated at the event.

He made the claim at a campaign event for former President Donald J. Trump, whom he endorsed after ending his troubled independent bid for the presidency.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is investigating claim that RFK Jr. cut off the head of a dead whale and took it home two decades ago.

New York Magazine political correspondent Olivia Nuzzi has been put on leave by leadership after engaging in a “personal relationship” with “a former subject relevant to the 2024 campaign while she was reporting on the campaign,

Katherine Silverstein, a spokesperson for NOAA, told the Times that the federal agency typically does not comment on open investigations.

Kennedy Jr. is under federal investigation for an incident involving a dead whale that dates back two decades. The National Marine Fisheries Service confirmed the probe, which follows allegations that Kennedy cut off the head of a deceased whale and transported it home.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is under investigation for allegedly cutting the head off a dead whale carcass more than 20 years as new details of the harrowing incident emerge