Last month, the State Elections Enforcement Commission (SEEC) found Angelo Sevarino, the campaign treasurer for East Windsor First Selectman Jason Boswza, in violation of state election laws. While the violations were minor, they represent the second SEEC violation associated with the Boswza campaign in recent years.
The ruling made mention of a political action committee (PAC) named Better Days Ahead, which inspired East Windsor residents Lynn and Rand Stanley to further investigate. As a result, they filed another SEEC complaint earlier this week, alleging PAC officials failed to register with the town and state before participating in political activities.
“What’s right is right, what’s wrong is wrong,” said Lynn Stanley “I’m just tired of the unethical stuff.”
The original complaint was filed by William Dove, an East Windsor resident who formerly sat on the town’s Board of Finance. Dove’s complaint accused Sevarino of having “impermissibly delegated” his job as treasurer to a consultant company named Blue Edge Strategies, without disclosing any consulting fees or services performed by the group. Additionally, Dove accused Sevarino of failing to provide proper documentation for expenses related to six campaign mailers, failing to identify secondary payees and failing to provide proper information on individual donors.
Dove also accused Boswza of having failed to provide proper attribution or disclaimers on the mailers and to have accepted $1,000 in cash donations from an individual donor, with state law dictating that the maximum donation per donor allowed is $100.
Ultimately, the SEEC ruled that Sevarino was within his rights to hire Blue Edge to help with the campaign, but that Sevarino violated election law by accepting the $1,000 contribution and failing to include both secondary payee information and the addresses of contributors on the original January 10th, 2024, election filings. The SEEC imposed a $200 fine.
Although Dove’s complaint placed the blame for the $1,000 contribution on Boswza, SEEC found Sevarino to be at fault. Sevarino told the SEEC that he had attempted to reimburse the donor $900 through a check, but was unsuccessful in doing so after the donor closed his bank account. The only other allegation levied against Boswza himself in the complaint was for improper disclosures on campaign mailers, which the SEEC found to be untrue.
“I’d refer you to line 34 of the decision, which says ‘This matter is dismissed regarding claims against Respondent Jason Bowsza,”’ said Bowsza, in an email reply to Inside Investigator’s request for comment. “Any other questions should be submitted to the parties to the decision, of which I am not one.”
The ruling inspired East Windsor residents Lynn and Rand Stanley to take a closer look at the town’s campaign contributions, leading them to file another complaint on June 4.
“We started to get suspicious, so that’s why we started to look at campaign contributions and try to follow the money, and that’s where we saw a lot of where the money was coming from,” said Lynn. ”That’s where we noticed the sloppiness in the filing, and that’s when we decided to file a complaint.”
Per their complaint, the PAC registered with the town and began to register with the state on May 19, 2025, two years after contributing $1,756 to both the town’s Democratic Council and Friends of Jason 2023, a PAC associated with Bowsza’s campaign.
“On May 19, 2025, after years of activity, the group finally submitted its first registration form, but only with the East Windsor Town Clerk and not with the State, even though its paperwork says it will participate in both state and municipal elections,” reads the complaint. “No Form 20 disclosure statements have ever been filed. Given Respondents’ legal training and election experience, these lapses appear knowing and willful.”
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