Sicilian Mafia Caught Fixing Meat Prices

ROME — Sicily's Cosa Nostra imposed minimum prices for meat sold by Palermo butchers, police said yesterday, after rounding up 12 alleged mobsters for extortion, mafia conspiracy, and drug trafficking.

Alleged local mob boss Giancarlo Seidita — or Giancarlo "Sixfingers" — discussed meat- and food-price fixing during meetings held in a shack on the edge of town, according to a statement by the Carabinieri, the country's paramilitary police, who recorded the summits with hidden microphones and cameras.