Here it is.
According to Imus, the bulk of this is depreciation on the buildings.
What is it with these people? A guy buys some property, flies in terminally ill children at no cost, and these creepy reporters hound him like hell.
I'm not an Imus listener, but what has Robert Frank ever done for a sick kid?
The implication of course is that Imus is doing this somehow for his personal gain. The man can afford to build a huge ranch and live like Heinz Kerry's. He doesn't need to set up any phony charity.
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I'm not much of a fan, but I have to defend Imus on this one. Leave the scrutiny for the ones who are out there trying to hide corruption behind a "so-called" charity.
He's losing it this morning. His obsequious friends are bending over backwards to agree with his complaints about this article.
Embarrassing.
So what's the big deal? $2.6 million divided by 100 kids equals $26,000 per kid. According to the following info, only 10 kids are hosted at the Ranch per one week session. I suspect that there are a lot of rich people who wouldn't think anything of dropping $26K for a week's vacation.
More info on the Imus Ranch here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3359675/
Trump will be on at 7:07. He knows something about handling money.
I watch Imus in the morning, even though I don't agree with his politics, just for the fun of it.
This is just another 'journalist' trying to tear down someone to make a name for himself and take perverse pleasure in it.
Imus may be, as with a lot of other personalities, tying to leave a legacy, but if he doing good with his efforts he should not be dragged through the mud for it.
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I think it's funny that Imus is now the target of the vitriol that he dishes out to everyone else. I bet if that was the Dick Cheney ranch he wouldn't be so 'charitable'.
I think Imus has been well-intentioned in founding and running the ranch.
However, that doesn't mean he hasn't been sloppy. The article reports that he failed to file returns. Also, it sounds as if he should have reimbursed the ranch for family stays, and was unaware of the obligation.
I also don't buy his statement that he doesn't need the ranch for a vacation spot since he has a $30 million mansion in Connecticut. Obviously there are huge differences between the two locales. Do rich people in CT not go on vacation because they prefer to stay at home? Of course not.
I predict that Imus will make some big gesture to clear up any cloud over the operation, perhaps making a multi-million dollar donation out of his own pocket.
This reminds me of seven or eight years ago when the I-Man bombed, big-time, at the Correspondents Dinner in DC. He spent the next week trying to rebuild his image. George Stephanopolous, who is on now, was one of the few folks who stood by Imus initially.
BTW, George just remined Imus that by not sending reporters to the scene of something-or-other is what got Hal Raines and the NYT in trouble years ago.
The salary he's making, he could pay for the ranch with his credit card.
Oh boy, this is not going away, imo. Imus just used "SOB" in referring to Frank and he called him a, "g-d punk!"
I just have to laugh when the government, which loses BILLIONS every year, expects everyone else to be correct down to the penny with a bunch of arcane rules and regulations.
Sounds like they're questioning the deductibility of some expenses, which is really nothing unusual for the taxman to do.
No good deed goes unpunished. Not much of an Imus fan but go back far enough in his career to remember his "shock jock" years. He turned his life around and now is giving back in a meaningful way ... give the guy a break.
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Imus is a shame - its about time that he goes down with JJ, Sharpton and the rest of the liberal trash.