 At the Maxi Trial against the Mafia in the mid-1980s, they were convicted of association with Mafia members.Salvo Lima arranged an unusually lucrative concession to collect taxes in Sicily for the Salvo cousins island (tax collection was contracted out by the government), in exchange for their loyalty to Lima and the Andreotti faction of the DC.The Salvos were allowed 10 percent of the take – three times as much as the national average of 3.3 percent.