NEW YORK — 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.”

The mobsters are accused of pocketing some of the $7 million that was fleeced from unsuspecting victims who were drawn to poker tables in Las Vegas, Miami, Manhattan and Long Island's seaside playground for the rich and famous.

Former federal prosecutor Mitchell Epner said the indictments offered a reminder that La Cosa Nostra

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