Saturday Reads

 Obituary:  Actor Henry Silva, 95, seen everywhere on television and in film and whose face was instant recognizable if not his name, has died:

Henry Silva passed away aged 95 on Wednesday in Los Angeles, reports confirm.

The New York-born actor reportedly died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

The Hollywood star spent more than 50 years on screen and racked up 130 film credits, including Johnny Cool, Ocean’s Eleven and The Manchurian Candidate.

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Another state bans legal abortion.

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A fifty-year-old murder case has ended in an arrest, but the shock is who or what the accused killer is.

Chirila, a longtime attorney in Reno, Carson City and the Lake Tahoe area, served as a deputy attorney general in the late 1970s and ran unsuccessfully for the Nevada Supreme Court in 1994.

In a 1998 federal indictment, U.S. prosecutors in Reno identified him as the former president of a company, A.G.E. Corp., that served as a front for Nevada brothel boss Joe Conforte.

The indictment accused Conforte and others of being part of an elaborate conspiracy to defraud the government in bankruptcy proceedings when the Mustang Ranch east of Reno was seized by the IRS, sold for back taxes in 1990 and illegally repurchased by Conforte and his cohorts.

I don't think I ever met Chirila the whole time I worked at the law library in Reno, Nevada, and I knew a lot of attorneys. I may have seen him, but I never knew who he was.