Italy Raids Pasta Makers in Price-Fixing Probe

Financial police have searched the offices of Italy’s top five pasta makers to investigate claims that they’ve rigged the price of rigatoni—and you know, other pasta, too (rigatoni was just alliterative). The investigation has been ongoing since 2007, after consumer groups complained that prices were up as much as 36%—and recommended that Italians boycott the stuff. Earlier this year, 26 firms were fined, though pasta makers are appealing, and maintain they never formed the alleged cartel. (More Italy stories.)