Written by by Jim Hᴏft at thegatewaypundit.com
A whistleblower report submitted to Congress on Friday alleges that the chief medical officer of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Dr. Alexander Eastman, pressured employees to acquire fentanyl lollipops under the guise of needing them for emergency pain management during the United Nations General Assembly in New York held in September.
According to the complaint, staff members were perplexed by Dr. Eastman’s insistence on obtaining the potent Schedule II narcotics, given the unusual nature of the request, NBC first reported.
Dr. Eastman defended his actions, stating that it was his responsibility to ensure the wellbeing of any injured CBP agents, asserting the lollipops were to be used for critical pain relief situations.
The whistleblowers said in the report that “Eastman spent copious hours of his and Office of the Chief Medical Officer staff time directing the OCMO staff to urgently help him procure fentanyl lollipops, a Schedule II narcotic, so that he could bring them on the CBP Air and Marine Operations helicopter on which he would be a passenger in New York City.”
“Dr. Eastman claims that his possession of fentanyl lollipops was necessary in case a CBP operator might be injured, or in case the CBP Air and Marine Operations team encountered a patient in need.”