"Bullshit. Family turns its back all the time." As it clearly had in the case of this boy, because he doubted he came from a gangster family. Otherwise he wouldn't be skulking around on the bottom, nowhere near doing any actual gang work. Which might be for the best, since he was not cut out for it. "We can talk more about it. It's not a hard job. Anyone like you can do it."

Otherwise he'd just make up some busy work to keep him occupied.