Gotti was kind of an ass, too.

Cali shouldn't have gotten involved with his niece's situation. Look, I understand how close many people are with their nieces, but I'm sure she had several other uncles, uncles without the responsibilities involving hundreds of people and millions of dollars that Cali had, who could have dealt with this. And if she didn't, Cali could have sent someone else to deal with it, particularly someone far enough down the totem pole that it would never lead back to him.

I think of Tony Soprano telling Paulie, "When are you gonna get it? You're a part of something big"... It's a business. A CEO never does a security guard's job.