...just know this for a certainty, big business requires low-levels on the street to move their wares and often times to take the fall...be it in the drug trade, prostitution & escort services or multi-million dollar real-estate scams. Just like they need "straw buyers" for names to put on mortgages they need street-level people to distribute the drugs, mange the prostitutes and to keep the minions in line while doing so...
Of course, the big guys are far above this. Any successful business has layered tiers. The folks at the bottom will always be put in the most risky/dangerous positions. To the folks at the top, the folks at the bottom are just a dime a dozen and are often times viewed as expendable. To that extent trouble makers and loose cannons get cut loose.
AC is a good example of someone at the bottom who is left to fend for himself. He was a recruiter, a pimp, a drug dealer and from what has been uncovered...sometimes an enforcer. When he gets pinched, no high powered lawyer comes to his aid and it is best to let everyone think that he and folks like MP, AD, JT, KW, BB, and DS are just a few
Brooklyn/Bronx/NYC thugs just trying to run their own game.