I don't buy that, why have a connected mob guy by your side when your trying to prove you left the mob, if thats the case he could have hired 2 bodyguards

"McGurn likes you, so I make you. So you are now one of us, if you fuck up, we take it out on McGurn. He is your sponsor. Fuck up, it's his ass. You work in his crew, he is your capo."