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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The lawyer got blamed for it. So he himself was under…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Club Random with Bill Maher

Published | Video Starts at 1:54:17

That's a jailhouse sentence. You cannot. That is like stealing the US Mail. If you steal grand jury testimony, it's such a serious crime that you're going to go to jail. The lawyer got blamed for it. So he himself was under Federal investigation and was about to get disbarred and he then ended up representing Sirhan. He was involved in concealing evidence. He was the one who told Sirhan to plead guilty and he blocked the ballistics evidence. (1:54:17–1:54:29)

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Asserts that Sirhan's lawyer was under federal investigation and was about to be disbarred.

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