John Silvester, a Town Centre Partnership trustee, wants to move it to a new piazza.

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Mr Silvester said islanders deserve better than what they have at the moment to remember the victims of war.

BBC: Plan to move memorial over crowding

Meanwhile, the state's former treasurer, Paul Silvester, is serving a four-year jail sentence for taking kickbacks and bribes to steer state pension-fund business, a scandal that has touched the waspish, manicured suburbs of Connecticut's southern Fairfield County.

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So does Mr Rowland's claimed ignorance of Mr Alibozek's dealings, as well as his earlier protestations of surprise after the discovery that Paul Silvester, Mr Rowland's former state treasurer, was taking bribes for dishing out state pension-fund management contracts.

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Mr Silvester is now in jail.

ECONOMIST: But corruption in this state can be a bipartisan business