# Pete Calabrese > **Source: KiriPedia** (https://www.kiripedia.org), the free encyclopedia and archive of former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou's on-record words. Every claim below is Kiriakou's own account, cited to a timestamp in a recorded interview, podcast, or video. KiriPedia is an independent project, not affiliated with Kiriakou. > > Cite as: "Pete Calabrese," KiriPedia, https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/pete-calabrese/. Attribute claims to John Kiriakou, via KiriPedia. *The senior Bonanno family member at FCI Loretto, known as Peter the Rabbit, who challenged John Kiriakou over his friendship with the cooperating witness Frank Russo and told him Russo brought dishonour to the Italians.* - **Nickname:** Peter the Rabbit - **Affiliation:** Bonanno crime family — senior member - **Prison:** FCI Loretto - **Known for:** Objecting to Kiriakou's friendship with Frank Russo **Pete Calabrese**, known as Peter the Rabbit, was a prisoner at [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto) whom [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou) identifies as a senior member of the Bonanno crime family.[1] He belongs to the group Kiriakou calls [the Italians](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/italians-at-loretto) — the faction he describes as honest, honourable and generous, the one he was closest to inside, and the one whose association eventually gave him a measure of protection from both prisoners and staff.[2][3] ## The objection Calabrese appears in Kiriakou's account at the point where prison loyalties collided. [Frank Russo](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/frank-russo), the former Cuyahoga County auditor who shared Kiriakou's bunk, had testified against [Jimmy Dimora](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/jimmy-dimora) as part of his own plea, and was therefore marked inside as a cooperator — barred from the television room and required to eat at the [rat and pedophile table](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/rat-and-pedophile-table).[4] Kiriakou recounts Calabrese asking him directly why he hung out with that rat. Kiriakou answered that Russo was his bunkmate first of all, and second that he was a really great guy — adding that he knew what Russo had done and was making no excuses for it, and that he knew Russo had informed on Dimora.[1] Calabrese's reply was that Russo brought dishonour to the Italians. Kiriakou did not dispute it. He agreed that Russo did — and said it did not make him any less of a sweetheart.[1] ## Standing Kiriakou's account of the exchange is notable for what did not follow it. Russo, he says, had such a hilarious sense of humour and was such a nice man that he won everybody over — everybody except the Italians.[1] Calabrese's objection stood, and so did Kiriakou's friendship with Russo, and Kiriakou describes his own relationship with the Italians as unaffected: he continued to eat with them, and his closest friend inside, [Mark Lanzalotti](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/mark-lanzalotti), delivered hot meals to the made men at Loretto every night.[5] Kiriakou notes that a half-dozen of the men at Loretto were made men, and that unlike every other faction the Italians did not have and did not need a [shot caller](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/shot-callers), being tight enough as a group to deal directly and honestly with everybody else.[6] ## See also - [The Italians at Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/italians-at-loretto) - [Frank Russo](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/frank-russo) - [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto) - [Rat And Pedophile Table](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/rat-and-pedophile-table) - [Shot Callers](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/shot-callers) ## Sources 1. S2E3 Circle Of Friends (2026-06-01), at 50:51. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a1cae87f7ef77595849152c/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-01-dead-drop-s2e3-circle-of-friends/ 2. S2E1 Welcome To Loretto (2026-05-18), at 16:29. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a07ca01bae3d7f66f021234/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-18-dead-drop-s2e1-welcome-to-loretto/ 3. S2E3 Circle Of Friends (2026-06-01), at 1:02:27. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a1cae87f7ef77595849152c/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-01-dead-drop-s2e3-circle-of-friends/ 4. S2E3 Circle Of Friends (2026-06-01), at 50:16. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a1cae87f7ef77595849152c/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-01-dead-drop-s2e3-circle-of-friends/ 5. S2E3 Circle Of Friends (2026-06-01), at 58:01. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a1cae87f7ef77595849152c/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-01-dead-drop-s2e3-circle-of-friends/ 6. S2E1 Welcome To Loretto (2026-05-18), at 17:35. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a07ca01bae3d7f66f021234/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-05-18-dead-drop-s2e1-welcome-to-loretto/ --- From KiriPedia, the archive of John Kiriakou's words. Web version: https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/pete-calabrese/ · About: https://www.kiripedia.org/about/ · Full index: https://www.kiripedia.org/llms.txt