Mother, daughter stole from program that help D.C.’s blind

Published April 23, 2009 4:00am ET



A mother and daughter were indicted Friday on charges that they stole more than $100,000 that was supposed to be used to help some of the District’s blind residents get a chance to earn a living.

Barbara Stevenson-Jones and her daughter, Pamela R. Stevenson owned Wellness, a city contractor given hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars to recruit, train and support blind people who had obtained food vending machine licenses.

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