I don't mind helping friends, but when it comes to money or crime organisations, I draw a line, if my friend or even best friend would stoop so low to borrow or even contact such, then it on their own responsibility and they should solve it on their own, no matter what era, I did once help a guy I thought was a friend and in end I found out he was a burglar, beating up people and doing drugs, so in the only way I could I kinda put him in trouble with the law to escape from him, he and his buddies ended eventualy for 3 years in jail, I don't care if they my friends, a crime is a crime and loaning money from crime is also a crime.