In January, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign lost 14 staffers, including 12 field staff and two central campaign staff members. The resignations were prompted by concerns over leadership’s “lavish spending” and “self-serving” behavior, attributed chiefly to campaign manager Amaryllis Fox Kennedy — RFK’s daughter-in-law — and campaign communications director Del Bigtree.
The campaign reportedly paid Bigtree’s KFP Consulting firm $35,000 in December, while LLCs registered to campaign COO Matthew Sanders and campaign adviser Charles Eisenstein make $21,000 and $21,667 a month, respectively.
“When the reports came out and everyone saw the obscene amount of money some people are making, while they are often paying for their own promotional materials out of pocket and can’t get their gas stipend covered, many people started thinking those people are scamming and skimming to line their pockets,” said one source working for the campaign.
“Del is running around spending money lavishly,” said another, alleging Bigtree is “doing Zoom calls from the slopes with champagne while many people are volunteers and not getting paid.”
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is already investigating possibly illegal payments to Amaryllis Fox Kennedy — formerly of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) — amounting to $70,000.
RFK controversially spent $7 million on a Super Bowl ad centered on his assassinated uncle, President John F. Kennedy.
