Although there were many hoodlums and racketeers in town, hundreds in fact, Sammy was one of the few formally "inducted" Cosa Nostra soldiers to actually live and operate in Syracuse.
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By the early to mid-1950s, Samuel Farrar had come to the attention of local law enforcement officials. By at least the mid-to-late 1950s, it appears that the federal authorities had also taken a keen interest in Farrar — specifically, special agents of the FBI working out of the Bureau’s Albany Office.
It is believed that Farrar first came into the crosshairs of the Federal Bureau of Investigation due to his constant close association with what was arguably the most important and widely publicized Mafia faction active within the cities of Utica and Syracuse in upstate New York.
