U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and U.S. Public Health Service flags are seen during a press conference in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 16, 2025. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
Allies within Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again' movement are trading formal blows, with a profanity-laced complaint filed, Politico reported Monday night.
The CEO of a supplement company, Peter Gillooly, and Calley Means, top adviser to Kennedy at Health and Human Services, accused each other of lying, threatening, and trying to harm each other’s businesses.
Gillooly filed a formal complaint to the Office of the Special Counsel and other agencies on Saturday, according to the report. He accused Means of abusing his position and running afoul of conflict of interest laws by threatening to involve Kennedy and Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, in their feud.
“He clearly states that if I do not accept his accusation and comply — which I am not guilty of in the first place — he will sue myself and my business,” Gillooly wrote in the complaint, according to the report. “Additionally, Means threatens to blackmail my private corporation with HHS executive leadership if we do not comply with his demands, and extort my business into transacting with Truemed.”
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Means, meanwhile, said Gillooly’s company leaked lies about his company to far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer.
“If one more thing happens, I’m going to go to Jay Bhattacharya and Bobby and tell him that you and your cadre of Peter McCullough and Kelly Victory are spreading lies and trying to f--- with him and hurt his administration,” Means said in a recording of a Saturday morning call between him and Gillooly obtained by Politicio.
“I am going to sue the s--- out of you and escalate this if it continues,” said Means, regarding allegedly leaked false information.
Means told Politico he received proof that "provably false information" about Truemed was being spread.
A Truemed lawyer sent a cease and desist letter to Gillooly and company founder Foster Coulson on Monday. Wellness Company founder Foster Coulson denied leaking info to Loomer.