Photo Caption: Georgios Kakavelos beside his new attorney Mark Sacco for sentencing Tuesday. ERICA MILLER/THE LEADER-HERALD
BALLSTON SPA – A Johnstown deli owner who ambushed and killed an employee — 22-year-old Allyzibeth “Ally” Lamont — for blowing the whistle on his litany of labor law violations was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Tuesday in Saratoga County Court.
Georgios Kakavelos, 53, of Milton, showed little to no emotion as Judge James A. Murphy announced the sentencing, the county’s first-ever first-degree murder conviction since the statute was enacted.
Kakavelos, the owner of the Local No. 9 Smokehouse and Substation in Johnstown, sat stoically as family and loved ones of Lamont, of Gloversville, gave emotional victim-impact statements.
Kakavelos, a Greek immigrant, also owned the Saratoga Diner in Saratoga Springs and Travers Diner in Gloversville.
The victim’s sister, Brooke Lamont, told Kakavelos: “You disgust me and make me physically sick. The truth is heartbreaking, something I will truly never forget. And now everybody knows who you truly are — a woman-hating, narcissistic piece of sh–.”
Tammy Quackenbush, Lamont’s aunt, said: “I hope that you never get a moment’s peace for what you did. Your Honor, we ask that you sentence him to the same thing (Kakavelos) sentenced us to — life without parole.”
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