I believe the Genovese family was messing with Junior Gotti on that. The Genovese family was more thorough when putting their prospects names to other families for membership. They put their full name and nicknames so the other families could do their own investigations and if anyone has a gripe about why the guy should not get his button.

"I have this Nightmare. I'm on 5th avenue watching the St. Patrick's Day parade and I have a coronary and nine thousand cops march happily over my body." Chief Sidney Green