New Jersey State Senator and gubernatorial candidate Raymond Lesniak said that online gaming is critical to the state of New Jersey and that he and the state would have a swift reaction if Attorney General nominee Jeff Sessions followed through on his hints at overturning the 2011 Department of Justice memorandum that interpreted the scope of the 1961 Wire Act as limited to sports betting.
“That's not going to sit well with our Atlantic City casinos, where online gaming is keeping the lights on,” Lesniak told PokerNews in a phone interview. “It hasn't been a spectacular success, but it certainly keeps the margins going, and it's actually the only increase in casino revenues that we've seen.