Translation for "racketted" to spanish
Racketted
Translation examples
He's racketeered, extorted, robbed, violated even killed people with impunity thanks to his defence, who'll stoop as low as it takes to get him released
Él ha estafado, extorsionado, robado, violado... incluso asesinado a personas con total impunidad gracias a su defensa, que no dudará en rebajarse a todo lo que sea necesario con tal de conseguir su absolución.
During that scorching moment of humiliation, with scores of legal minds wondering whether she was a wronged coinventor or just a wanton harlot, Penny heard a familiar racket.
Durante ese momento bochornoso de humillación, rodeada de montones de juristas que debían de estar preguntándose si era una coinventora estafada o una simple ramera disipada, Penny oyó un estruendo familiar.
‘Planting’ was a racket whereby fakes or inferior antiques were placed in private homes—often homes belonging to the elderly—to be sold to vultures clustering at the deathbed: bottom feeders so eager to rip off the old lady in the oxygen tent that they didn’t realize they were being ripped off themselves.
«Colocar» era el término con que se conocía la estafa de llevar falsificaciones o antigüedades de poca calidad a casas de particulares cuyos dueños a menudo eran ancianos para luego venderlas a los buitres que se apiñaran alrededor de su lecho de muerte: criaturas bentónicas tan impacientes por estafar a la anciana en la cámara de oxígeno que no se daban cuenta de que ellos mismos estaban siendo estafados—.
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