estaban recetando
-they/you were prescribing
Imperfect progressive ellos/ellas/ustedes conjugation of recetar.

recetar

A mí no me gustó lo de la indemnización, pero existe en otras partes del mundo y sabíamos que los funcionarios del Ejecutivo se estaban recetando sus buenas indemnizaciones.
I didn't like the compensation, but it exists in other parts of the world and we knew that executive officials were writing out their own hefty severance compensation.
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