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Discover LudwigThe phrase "acquired stolen" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to describe something that has been obtained unlawfully, but the combination of words is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The police recovered the acquired stolen goods from the suspect's home."
Alternatives: "illegally obtained" or "gained unlawfully".
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Butu acquired stolen payment card data from Oprea belonging to approximately 140 cardholders.
In 1976, he opened a pawn shop to keep the acquired stolen property.
He has faced allegations from various people, including the daughter of Laila Shahzada, that he acquired stolen art to decorate the palace.
After escaping into the city sewer system, Karis embarks on a vengeful rampage against the various criminal fences and high society antiquarians who had acquired stolen relics from his tomb.
A criminal who acquired stolen Target credit card numbers through a massive hack of that retail chain's data system in 2013 could use them via Apple Pay to buy merchandise from, well, Target.
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In the most extreme example Marion True, a former antiquities curator at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, was indicted in Italy on charges of conspiring to acquire stolen objects for her museum.
On top of that, some experts in this field suggest, antiquities collectors can be patient: buyers with deep enough pockets can acquire stolen goods and sit on them for years, releasing them into the market when the heat has died down.
Italy played hardball with the Getty in the mid-2000s, chargits its former antiquities curator, Marion True, with conspiring to acquire stolen goods.
Regan is incensed that the FBI provided the money to acquire stolen goods, the actual goods as well, and even the warehouses to store them in, while working out plans for moving the goods through informants and undercover employees clustered around Luqman Abdullah and the Masjid al-Haqq mosque.
Issa acquired Steal Stopper in February , 1982 began to run the company himself, and turned it around.
Witnesses said some of the attackers used G3 assault rifles, like the Kenyan security services, and ammunition that included tracer bullets, a sign they may have acquired — or stolen — the weapons from the military.
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