On June 15, 2004, Bell filed an ethics complaint against Tom DeLay, alleging an abuse of power and illegal solicitation of money, among other things.

Trying to draw attention to the lengths to which Democrats went to raise money, Senator Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma, called the coffee, which occurred on June 18, 1996, an instance of an illegal solicitation.

The law was challenged by two black brokers who were accused of making illegal solicitations of owners in a mostly white Chicago neighborhood, seeking houses to sell to their black clients.

Nevertheless, Mr. Richards said he received 5 to 10 citations a week for illegal solicitation.

He shook his unpainted and featherless head sadly when he considered the police record (arrests for vagrancy, illegal solicitation of rides and, ironically, suspicion of prostitution) of an essentially respectable woman.

Mr. O'Quinn has been indicted for illegal solicitation in South Carolina, the site of the crash, and a Texas Bar grievance committee has found that he engaged in misconduct in the incident.

The hope is that the 60-day experiment will reduce the illegal solicitations that have long plagued the city's airport, officials of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said yesterday.

Maybe we could cook him on illegal and unlicensed solicitation since he knew Holloway's predilections, but it's a stretch.

There is no evidence that Giuliani campaign officials knew of the illegal solicitations, said Daniel J. Castleman, chief of the District Attorney's investigation division.

"Merely entertaining his supporters in the White House," the Attorney General wrote, did not amount to an illegal solicitation by a President.