Mafia returns to center stage in NBA betting scandal that included rigged poker games

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal highlighted the mob's persistence and adaptability to changing times and technology.

Four of New York's five organized crime families allegedly participated in the sophisticated rigging of high-stakes poker games that one investigator said were "reminiscent of a Hollywood movie.”