Tampa banker pleads guilty in embezzlement case, agrees to $122K

A Tampa Bay area man faces potentially up to decades in federal prison after pleading guilty to embezzlement and misappropriation of bank funds. 

Edward L. Jenkinson, 47, of Trinity, Pasco County, faces 30 years in federal prison after the guilty plea, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa. 

Federal prosecutors, in the statement, say Jenkinson was a "bank officer...responsible for managing a Bank 1 financial center located in Tampa." The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office arrest record for Jenkinson says he was employed at Fifth Third Bank.