re: pretending to be connected to mafia for street cred

I haven't ever known anyone who pretended, but did know of someone from back home who was actually allegedly "connected." ... He was the president of one of the local banks in which he had a relative managing day-to-day operations since he & his family had relocated to another state. The story was, he & his relative had some sort of disagreement about "business issues" pertaining to said bank, & shortly thereafter, the relative/manager was found dead in said bank, with 4 gunshot wounds to the chest, & was promptly ruled a "suicide" by the authorities. Case closed.