For eight years, Lester T. Jones Jr. ran the Atlanta Hawks' expense reimbursement program and the corporate American Express account at the same time. The two systems did not talk to each other. Neither did the people he supervised.
Lester T. Jones Jr. spent eight years feeding an NBA franchise's expense system the lies it was built to swallow. On April 29, 2026, a federal judge told him the lies cost forty-one months.
By Mark Tell · Apr 30
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