RFK CASH & KERRY

Bail-out group’s chief earns 352G

Human-rights advocate Kerry Kennedy, who is leading the mass bail-out of Rikers Island prisoners, collects a boatload of cash as the leader of the nonprofit named for her slain father.

Kennedy (right), 59, who has had her own brush with the law, raked in $352,298 in compensation in 2016 as president of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights foundation, including a $70,000 “bonus,” according to the latest tax filings.

Between 2009 and 2011 her base annual salary hovered at just over $200,000, plus a $25,000 bonus earned in 2010. By 2012, her salary rose to $236,768, and two years later it hit $280,774 plus a $50,000 bonus.

The $70,000 bonus was paid in a year when the organization saw its contributions drop from $12,978,316 in 2015 to $10,496,055 in 2016, the most recent tax filings show.

The Washingtonbased group, which was founded to promote social justice in 1968 after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination, last month ear- marked $5 million for the initiative to bail out all women and 16- and 17year-olds from city jails no matter what crime with which they are charged, including attempted murder, assault and robbery.

Under a 2012 state law, charities are barred from posting bail for individuals in excess of $2,000 and for anything more serious than a misdemeanor. The foundation said that it had recruited hundreds of volunteers to spring women and adolescents from Rikers on its behalf.

“We’re going to bail out as many people as we can,” said Kennedy last week.

Kennedy, the former wife of Gov. Cuomo, was herself arrested in 2012 for driving under the influence of drugs on a Westchester highway. At the time, she claimed she had mistakenly taken Ambien, a sleeping pill, instead of her thyroid medication before slamming her Lexus into a tractor-trailer. A Westchester jury found her not guilty in 2014.

Messages left last week with the foundation and Kennedy were not returned.