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(COLUMBUS, Ohio)—Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine issued the following statement following Precourt Sports Ventures' (PSV) and Major League Soccer's (MLS) letter to the City of Columbus:
"This is a good first step for PSV and Major League Soccer to formally state that interested parties should contact them with offers to purchase the rights to operate the Crew in Columbus. This is tacit recognition by PSV and MLS that having accepted public funding, they have responsibilities
under Ohio’s law.
"I want to make clear that we intend to press ahead with our case. We will still seek for the court to confirm that Ohio Revised Code 9.67 and all provisions therein apply to PSV and MLS and that over the next six months they must provide a reasonable opportunity for local investors to indeed purchase the rights to keep Crew SC in Columbus."
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