Comments by AG Nominee Jeff Sessions, at his confirmation hearing this week by the incoming Trump administration. that he would be revisiting the issue of online gambling and the Wire Act, has triggered a warning from New Jersey that it will not tolerate a federal ban on its Online Gambling Industry after it has been successfully running legal and regulated online gambling for the past few years.
Raymond Lesniak, the New Jersey Senator and gubernatorial candidate has warned that any attempt to overturn a 2011 Department of Justice opinion that sports betting is exclusively governed by the federal Wire Act will not be tolerated by his state.
Lesniak commented on Sessions statement by saying that legalized online gambling was important to New Jersey and its Atlantic City land casino operators who have successfully gone online, and they would definitely not welcome the risk to their investments and operations that such federal interference would represent.
The Senator went on to say that should the Attorney General nominee be confirmed and he thereafter chooses to change the DoJ Office of Legal Counsel Opinion, New Jersey would most definitely take judicial measures against him, with the support of Atlantic City operators.
Meanwhile, the Poker Players Alliance has also followed up on its criticism of Sen. Lindsey Graham’s questions in the Sessions hearing with regard to the Office of Legal Counsel view on the Wire Act.
A video has been published by the Poker Players Alliance that clearly illustrates the apparent conflicts that occurred in the hearing statements of the two men.