While some of you are on the topic of commercial multi students logging PIC with an instructor before they have a multi rating, do you know if that PIC time counts towards the 15 hours of multi PIC required for MEI?

I had talked to someone an examiner in Maryland and someone at the Baltimore FSDO and they both said it did not count. Yet I know people who have taken MEI checkrides other places and those 10 hours counted towards their 15 hour requirement, even people who did their MEI as their initial instructor rating with an FAA examiner. NoyGonnaDoIt seems to be totally right about people at FSDOs lol.