WASHINGTON, April 6 -- Sen. Richard Blumenthal issued text of the following press release:
U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal today wrote to the Department of Justice demanding it open an antitrust investigation into the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)'s interference with Connecticut's efforts to keep the Connecticut Sun based in the state.
"In forcing the Sun's sale to Fertitta Entertainment and move to Houston despite a more lucrative bid to move the team to Hartford, which is in the same media and consumer market, the WNBA abused its monopolistic control over professional women's basketball to flagrantly block potential negotiations and dictate the result for its own purposes, seemingly violating federal antitrust laws," Bl...