Center for Media and Democracy: Railroad Owned by RFK Jr.’s Megadonor Repeatedly Violated Environmental and Safety Laws
The Center for Media and Democracy used Violation Tracker to help tell a story of a wealthy railroad owner lavishly supporting two presidential campaigns. Timothy Mellon is the third biggest donor so far this election cycle, CMD reports.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may claim he will be “the best environmental president in American history,” but the Republican industrialist bankrolling the super PAC behind his longshot bid for the White House has a long history of violating environmental laws.
A Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) study of the railroad business that 81-year-old megadonor Timothy Mellon owned for 45 years shows numerous violations of federal and state environmental and safety laws, including a criminal conviction of the company for covering up a 2006 oil spill.”
Read the full story at the Center for Media and Democracy.