.....three months later, on March 25, 1974, Sammy was among 14 men arrested by the FBI for operating high-stakes dice games.
Side Note: Through the decades, Sammy had been arrested numerous times for gambling. Yet, for many years, Sammy reportedly only had one gambling charge that had ever stuck. That incident occurred back in 1963 when Farrar was arrested, and later convicted, of promoting gambling in Onondaga County.
It appears that throughout his underworld career Sammy had led a very charmed existence.
...But his new business venture didn’t pan out as well as he expected. A year or so later, the apartment building housing the restaurant caught fire, destroying the restaurant as well as the entire four-story building structure. Fire marshals later estimated the fire damage at nearly $100,000. Fire Department investigators later stated that the fire started between the cushions of a booth in the restaurant.
The FBI later said that they suspected it was an arson job committed by Farrar and several mob associates to collect money from the restaurant’s fire insurance policy. They also believed that Farrar had a 'cumpare' of his as a secret partner in the business, a Utica-based mafioso by the name of Rosario (Russ) Mancuso.
