The group also sought a temporary restraining order because "the election is imminent," Judge D. Brock Hornby wrote in his ruling, "and they wish to make solicitations and expenditures that exceed the $5,000 limit without registering or reporting".
Indeed, last March and April, when Gore had admitted to making solicitations from his office and the Justice Department was mulling whether he might have broken the law, some news accounts hinted that some of the money Gore raised might have been placed in hard-money accounts.
As TechCrunch contributor and Seattle lawyer William Carleton wrote, "the SEC's proposed new Reg D rules and filing requirements, if adopted, will make general solicitation more of a burden than an efficiency".
Sure enough, the final rules establishing Rule 506(c) are already here and general solicitation in angel investing will soon be the law of the land, but the SEC's proposed new Reg D rules and filing requirements, if adopted, will make general solicitation more of a burden than an efficiency.
There is a way to make such solicitations voluntary: insulate yourself from the donors' identities.
Mr. Anderson said Ms. Lee was not expected to testify that she had been instructed to make such solicitations, but because she and Ms. Hou had both performed senior roles for the comptroller, a jury could "infer that their actions were coordinated".
The board noted that it is generally illegal for high-ranking appointed city officials to make these solicitations and that Ms. Keaney "acknowledged that she violated the city's conflicts of interest law, which prohibits an individual with substantial policy discretion, such as she was at the time," from seeking donations for a city elected official or candidate for office.
Back in 2003, while interior minister, he made "passive solicitation" a crime punishable by a jail term - meaning women could be judged to have been soliciting just by their appearance, even if they had not approached a potential customer.
