I think his point is exactly what you're saying. An associate in Chicago is different than one in New York. So an associate in New York would be a soldier in Chicago. And an associate in Chicago would be...
We're saying very different things. He's coming up with his own terms and definitions in order to pad the numbers. All I know is that the FBI didn't bother to differentiate between "made members" and "soldiers" back in 2007. And even if somebody wants to pull their own wording out of thin air, that doesn't change the fact that the feds cited what they did - 28 made members and a little over 100 associates. So this "40 made members, 120 soldiers, and several hundred associates" isn't going to fly.
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