He boldly solicited potential agents.
If they wanted to stage a concert, they didn't solicit booking agents at overpriced nightclubs; they used someone's apartment, or commandeered an empty warehouse and rigged the lights and speakers by themselves.
Last Tuesday, Jonathan Karp, who was Puzo's editor at Random House, sent an e-mail to a handful of literary agents, soliciting an author for a new book about the Corleones, tentatively titled "The Godfather Returns".
What they said they experienced that day violated several provisions of Defense Department Directive 1344.7, which prohibits agents from soliciting "recruits, trainees and transient personnel in a 'mass' or 'captive' audience" on bases, soliciting on-duty personnel, using deceptive methods or possessing the allotment forms.
The bill restricted candidates and their aides or agents from soliciting or directing contributions above the $5,000 individual limit, in order to stop the practice of candidate-solicited large contributions to the soft-money accounts of political party committees.
The majority, she said, had so greatly expanded the government's burden of proof in undercover sting operations as to make future such investigations untenable:... (A)fter this case, every defendant will claim that something the Government agent did before soliciting the crime "created" a predisposition that was not there before.
This week, railroad officials said that a Metropolitan Transportation Authority police officer issued a citation on Oct. 20 to one of the agents for illegal soliciting in Pennsylvania Station.
Mr. Polone said he and Mr. O'Brien's agents would begin soliciting offers for him immediately with a goal of landing a new network show as close to that date as possible.
Kelly is now an agent for this scientist, soliciting employment proposals that the worker might not have time to seek out himself.
There has been other potentially damaging news, including the recent disclosure of a report by a State Department investigator asserting that high-ranking officials under Mrs. Clinton tried to cover up allegations that American diplomats and security agents solicited prostitutes.
