Is it some cultural phenomena?
In Russia, if a man with surname, say "Подставной" (smth. like "Dummy", "Faked", "Setuped") tried to assasinate some public person, there will be tons of posts everywhere pointing to his surname, from jokes to conspiracy theories, with memes and all that stuff.
We think that people have their surnames not randomly, they often come from real properties, occupations and skills of their ancestors, so something still stays in genetic of that people.
It is not very nice to always do that, but at such occasions it is inevitable.
Meanwhile, same with Biden, Trump and others with "speaking" surmanes (Biden - one who bide, Trump - card-player). Saw very little playing with their surnames, and mostly it is done through distortimg surnames, not playing with direct meanings.
Just an observation. :)
The connotation is to non-violent crime based on dishonesty, like fraud or corruption, that would also entail typically financial gain.
As an entertaining example, I saw a video once titled something like, "My Jewish grandma in Israel is an anti-Semite". This young guy is visiting his grandma and she asks him, "Did you get a job in America?" He says yes, then she asks, "Are you working for Jews?"
He says, "No, Grandma, they're actually goys."
She says, "Good, I'm glad to hear that."
He says, "What? Why would you say that?"
She says, "All Jews are crooks."