Ethel Kennedy fought the law, but unlike with daughter Kerry Kennedy, the law won.
Fifteen years before Kerry Kennedy beat her drugged-driving rap, her feisty mom, now 85, had her own run-in with highway cops.
The widow of slain Sen. Robert F. Kennedy got pulled over by a Maryland trooper in July 1999 but failed to “talk the trooper out of it.”
Her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recorded the incident in his journal on July 11, 1999, a copy of which was viewed by The Post.
After pleadings by “Mum” failed, the trooper asked, “What address should I send [the ticket] to?”
Ethel replied, “Just send it to the New York office.”
The baffled lawman asked, “What’s the New York office?”
Ethel responded, “That’s where they pay the bills.”
The Kennedy family’s finances are handled by the Park Agency in Manhattan, which was set up in 1949 by family patriarch Joseph Kennedy.
The officer joked, “I wish I had a New York office.”