In this episode of You Can’t Make It Up…
According to a whistleblower report sent to Congress on Friday, the chief medical officer for Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pressured his staff to order fentanyl lollipops for him to take to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York in September.
When the top doc was caught, his excuse was even more idiotic than his desperate effort to get his hands on the deadly drug — disguised as lollipops, no less.
Dr. Alexander Eastman’s staff raised questions about why he would need to fentanyl lollipops to take to the UN, which he claimed was … wait for it… “part of his duties to make sure that any injured CBP operators were cared for, making the argument that the lollipops would be necessary for pain management should an emergency occur.”
Did I mention that Eastman was already under investigation trying to procure…