Former New Jersey State Senator Raymond Lesniak will be speaking at next week’s Betting on Sports America (23-25 April) and holding a book signing session at the event.

As an American Democratic Party politician who served in the New Jersey State Senate from 1983 to 2018, Lesniak helped drive the legal challenge to the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act (PASPA), ultimately leading to its overturn in May 2018.

As early as 2014, Lesniak had announced his plan to challenge the outdated bill – passed in 1992 – and legalize sports betting for both racetracks and casinos in the state.

On the second full day of the conference (Thursday 25 April), fittingly held in New Jersey at the Meadowlands Exposition Center, he will be joining a panel of experts for a ‘States of the Nation’ track session titled ‘New Jersey – land of opportunity’.