NCPG Accuses NV Council Of Misrepresenting Kalshi-Related Exit

America’s largest problem-gambling advocacy organization is accusing its former Nevada affiliate of misrepresenting why their relationship ended.

In an internal email reviewed by GamblingHarm.org, the National Council on Problem Gambling says records show the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling had already failed to renew its affiliation before the $2 million Kalshi relationship was publicly announced on May 18. Nevada Council Executive Director Trey Delap, however, has cited the Kalshi deal as the reason for the organization’s break with the national group.

The Nevada Current reported on August 11 that the Nevada Council was severing its ties with the National Council, based in Washington, D.C.

The Current received statements from Delap, who referenced the National Council’s deal with Kalshi, a prediction market that the State of Nevada has claimed is a form of illegal sports gambling. The Current said the National Council did not respond to a request for comment on its story.

On Friday, August 14, Derek Longmeier, president of the National Council’s Board of Directors, sent an email to NCGP’s state affiliates about the Current’s report and Delap’s comments, which also included the claim that other state affiliates are in the midst of “serious conversations about withdrawing or redirecting their support” from the national organization.

Longmeier wrote that Delap’s statements were “factually inaccurate.”

“Recent public statements attributed to Trey Delap, executive director of the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling, are inconsistent with NCPG’s documented records and communications,” Longmeier wrote.

According to Longmeier, the Nevada Council did not submit its renewal forms by the April 30 deadline, which preceded the National Council’s May 18 announcement about Kalshi.

“Before the announcement, this information was confidential and not publicly available,” Longmeier wrote.

According to a June 1 letter from the Nevada Council to the National Council, Delap said the Nevada Council would be “pausing” its renewal.

Heather Mauer, executive director of the National Council, replied that the organization does not have a “membership pause option for affiliate organizations.”

Mauer wrote that the Nevada Council’s membership had been “officially terminated” effective May 31.

“The documented timeline does not support the recent characterization that the Nevada Council on Problem Gambling ended its affiliation with NCPG in response to the May 18 announcement,” Longmeier wrote in the email reviewed by GamblingHarm.org. “By conflating these events, the Nevada Council has misrepresented the timeline in what appears to be an effort to advance a political narrative rather than accurately reflect the facts.”

The Nevada Council was one of the National Council’s more than 30 state affiliates.

In July, the Michigan Gaming Control Board, a regulator, explicitly ended its relationship with the National Council over its relationship with Kalshi.

The National Council has stated publicly that it is neutral to legal gambling, including the contested legality of “sports event contracts” on prediction markets.

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