Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The New York mafia is still kicking—and it may be more powerful than experts believed. Several members of New York City’s most prominent crime families were among the dozens of ...

Associates of four of New York's infamous "five families" crime syndicates allegedly backed a multimillion-dollar poker con that used elaborate technology to cheat unsuspecting players — and brought rare, unappreciated light to the mob's shadowy ...

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 ...