In 2021, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. earned more than $500,000 as the chair and top lawyer at Children’s Health Defense, the nonprofit organization that he has helped build into a leading spreader of anti-vaccine falsehoods and a platform for launching his independent bid for the White House. The compensation was almost three times as high as the amount paid to the organization’s president, but it was not Kennedy’s biggest source of income. Neither was his family’s fabled wealth. Instead, most of his