Health evaluation to be done by clinic

The wait is not going to go on indefinitely, a prosecutor says.
WARREN -- Tony Delmont, the convicted central figure in the Trumbull County purchasing probe, will be evaluated by the Cleveland Clinic to determine when he is healthy enough to report to prison.
Common Pleas Judge Peter Kontos wrote a judgment entry last week after a hearing involving Delmont. It states Delmont's attorney and the county prosecutor's office agreed that once the court receives the Cleveland Clinic's evaluation, the court will determine a new date for him to report to prison.
On Jan. 27, when Delmont was sentenced to three years in prison for helping cleaning supply companies bilk some $400,000 from Trumbull County between 1999 and 2002 in return for bribes, Judge Kontos had set a target date of Monday for him to report to prison.
Delmont had given the court a letter from his doctor at University Hospitals HealthSystem, Ireland Cancer Center at the time, indicating he had acute lymphoblastic leukemia and would die without the treatment he receives at the hospital.
Chris Becker, assistant Trumbull County prosecutor handling the case, said the court received another letter from Delmont's doctor a couple weeks ago indicating he was still too ill to report to prison.
Becker decided to ask for a second opinion from the Cleveland Clinic.
"The question we're trying to answer is whether the guy is going to be able to report to prison in three months or six months or whatever. It is definitely not going to go on forever." He estimated it may take 30 to 60 days to get the answer.
Delmont's doctors have said he has a less than 50 percent chance of surviving the cancer.
Delmont, 50, of Warren, had been Trumbull County's maintenance director.
Delmont also was fined $60,000 -- money that the county clerk of courts office received earlier this month from his account with the Public Employees Retirement System.