get away with

He was asked about it yesterday and his pathetic response was that he doesn't know so he'd "take a look at it," as if that means anything, and went on to say that murderers get away with it all the time in cities around the country:

“Local television was famous for, ‘We’ll be back later with what you want to see,’ and they were able to get away with it.”

“You will not get away with impersonating insurance companies in order to steal from wildfire victims,” Hochman said.

But the matter has rarely been prosecuted after previous major wildfires, and some tenant advocates say price gouging is now so prevalent, because people think they can get away with it.

“We’ve allowed them to get away with things .... and now we are dealing with the ramifications of that,” he said, advocating the U.S. must fortify its own industrial and supply chain capabilities to prevent “total dependence ... from our security to our health” on the communist-led nation.