Even assuming he was correct, the Warmiber article was published in 2009. However, Nick started cooperating in 2002. You have to guess Nick would have given them the names by the time the trial started in June, 2007. FBI agent Robert Grant threw out the 28 number in September, 2007.

So either FBI agent Robert Grant was not informed that there were nearly twice as many made men as he thought, or Warmiber was either 1) wrong in identifying them as “made men” 2) Nick had identified 60 people, dead or alive, from his entire career he knew as “made men.”

I personally feel the latter is plausible. Hell, half the people who’s names came up at the trial were dead—murdered or just died. I think it’s very possible the number referred to everyone who Nick had ever met he could certify was “made.”