First: Fat Pete had been indicted in the famous "Windows" case. He chose to plead guilty, thinking he might be paroled in 10 years, but he was not prepared to rat out higher-ups. But that wasn't good enough for Gas and Vic, so they tried to whack him, and threatened his family. That tells me, moron or not, Fat Pete knew enough to scare Gas and Vic.

Second, here is a link to one other photo of him that I found:

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2009/06/05/gal_rat.jpg