Loren was definitely a street guy. The government named him in an October 1987 indictment as the underboss of the Rochester crime family. He took this position after the family's ruling leadership (Russotti, Marino, Marotta, Rene, etc.) went to prison. Loren himself did a few years on RICO charges, although the was released in 1994 and hasn't had any trouble with the law that I know of since then. His Linkdin profile says he's a contractor and he happily spoke on camera for the Jake Russo story, sort of disavowing his previously life. Some reports have said Loren is still active in the streets as part of the Buffalo organization (they absorbed what was left of Rochester around '93). Ed Scarpo wrote a piece in 2017 naming Loren as a capo of a crew. I haven't seen any evidence of this though and Buffalo's numbers have been highly inflated in recent reports.

I believe Loren to be legit today.