$1.4 million is how much the feds argue ex-radio executive Evan Montvel-Cohen scammed multiple people and businesses out of in recent years. Montvel-Cohen hearing his fate in federal court after admitting to two of the six schemes prosecutors uncovered.

The chief judge not holding back during sentencing calling him, "A serial thief and a serial liar."

Montvel-Cohen will serve six years and ten months in federal prison, locked-up after admitting to charges of bank fraud and use of means of identification in furtherance of fraud. Ahead of the hearing, Montvel-Cohen gave no comment to the case.

KUAM News: Anything you want to say about today’s sentencing? How are you feeling?
Evan Montvel-Cohen: Get the phone out of my face.


Inside Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood’s courtroom, parties argued over the six schemes the feds alleged he was behind, scamming several out of $1.4 million. He only pleaded guilty to two of the schemes.


The feds contend in one scheme, he used another man’s identity to rent a home in Tamuning to have an affair but never paid rent.  The other, he offered a man a job at the advertising firm C2 Social in 2019, and sent the man a check to relocate to Guam – but the check bounced.

Since the case unfolded, Montvel-Cohen has been going through medical issues with his heart and was hoping for leniency telling the court, “i am very remorseful, embarrassed, and apologize deeply for my behavior.”

The chief judge telling him, “You were trying to hide your relationship. That doesn’t excuse you from entering into all these schemes and you should know that. Shame on you!”

His schemes going back at least two decades.

As KUAM News reported, in May 2009 he pleaded no contest to first-degree theft after being accused of stealing $62,000 from a Hawaii landscaping firm where he worked as a business manager in 2005. Years prior, he was one of the founders for Air America talk radio. That's when he allegedly transferred more than $800,000 from a nonprofit group, defending then he used the money for chemotherapy for his alleged brain cancer.

The history - a concern for Tydingco-Gatewood who said, “Clearly, you haven’t learned because the extent of these crimes. You are a serial thief. You are a serial liar.” The chief judge adding, “you clearly can’t be trusted out there with anybody else’s money and clearly not your own.”

Montvel-Cohen was allowed to leave the courthouse and will self-surrender to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons within the next month. 

He asked to be held at the federal medical center, butner in north carolina due to his medical issues.

Montvel-Cohen would also serve five years’ supervised release and pay the victim’s restitution.