Gangsters have gone out of style because its safer and easier to be a white collar criminal
Playing through the latest Yazuka game about the death of the Yakuza, similar to the last of the outlaws in RDR2.
You could just do an FTX and scapegoat 1 person, or be like WeWork and get rich losing money. Not to mention the hundreds of embezzling, politician lobbying companies out there or even the chaebols in Asia.
I grew up in a family who were professional criminals. Nearly all of the first and second generation eventually got into real estate development and the several of the second generation went into tax law. A bunch of other families I knew of got into local politics.