Okay Basil, I got it. You said you were team rocket, but that was a "joke", aka a lie.
You put it there so that, in case someone had a lie-detector and spent it on you (which they wouldn't but you could think that way), then it would reveal that you were not part of the enemy pokemon trainers. That would lead us to assume you were non-mafia.
BUT, it sure seems to look like there are two mafia families, and the good pokemon trainers would be the group you are a part of.
This sounds right.