A federal agency’s investigation into former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in connection with the reported beheading of a whale carcass has found such allegations to be unfounded, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has confirmed. CNN.

“NOAA’s Office of Law Enforcement has determined that the allegation is unfounded and has closed the investigation,” a NOAA spokesperson told the news network.

After his failed independent bid for the presidency, a 2012 Town & Country article resurfaced in which Kennedy’s daughter Kick talked about finding a dead whale in Hyannisport in 1994 and her father taking a chainsaw.