Porter Resident Sentenced To 60 Months Probation, $68,885 Restitution For Theft, Embezzlement Or Misapplication By Bank Employee

MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Deborah Kay Jenkins, age 48, of Porter, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to pay $68,885.00 in restitution for Theft, Embezzlement or Misapplication by Bank Employee, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 656. The charges arose from an investigation by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – Office of Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Information to which Jenkins previously entered a guilty plea alleged that from in or about May 2017 through in or about February 2019, in the Eastern District of Oklahoma, the defendant, being an employee of, and connected in a capacity with First Bank in Porter, Oklahoma, a bank whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, with intent to injure and defraud the said First Bank, willfully misapplied, embezzled, abstracted, and purloined more than $1,000.00 of the moneys, funds, assets and securities entrusted to the custody and care of First Bank, in that the defendant withdrew cash and transferred funds from the bank and misapplied, embezzled, abstracted and purloined the funds.

“Financial institutions are vital components of our everyday economy. Banking customers expect their deposits to be secure in the hands of their local banks,” said Acting United States Attorney Christopher J. Wilson. “Bank employees who embezzle and steal funds undermine that confidence, and it is the role of the criminal justice system to hold them accountable. I appreciate the investigative work of the FDIC-OIG and the FBI to insure the defendant was identified and brought to justice.”
              
The Honorable Ronald A. White, U.S. District Judge in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, in Muskogee, presided over the hearing. Assistant United States Attorney Shannon Henson represented the United States.