Bernstein introduced a bill to ban professional wrestling in February 1985, which was never voted out of committee.
Later that year, New York Senate Democrats formed a task force to investigate professional wrestling with Bernstein as the chair.
[1] The task force held their hearings on the 44th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City.
Captain Lou Albano told The New York Times that he did not agree to testify because, "some of these politicians have brains the size of dehydrated peas."
[2] He died on March 4, 1990, in a hospital in the Bronx, of a heart attack;[3] and was buried at the New Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Iselin, New Jersey.