The notion that they are tax deducting and depreciating their ranch via having 100 kids there in the summer, huge expenses and deductions raises eyebrows. It looks like Imus gets his ranch expenses paid for, hefty deductions all while lookinig like a compassionate man.
I don't know that that is true or not. It just doesn't look good. Looks like a faux charity for personal gain, publicity and such.
I suspect the Ranch is owned by a not-for-profit corporation, not by Don Imus himself, and that the not-for-profit corporation will continue to provide charitable services to severely ill children long after Imus has met his maker. I would expect Imus to spend a lot of time at the ranch since the place is called "The Imus Ranch." Imagine that -- a celebrity who has not only given his name and money to a worthy cause, but also spends time with the very children he is trying to help on behalf of the charitable organization that bares his name. I'm shocked.
While giving him the benefit of the doubt, and I would point out that for many years before he started the ranch thing, he was very involved in SIDS research, and raised a huge amount of money of endow a research center in NJ...as well as significant personal contributions of his own...what bothers me a tad about the ranch is why the need to be so extravangant...I mean, couldn't you give a whole lot more kids a similar experience on a regular dude ranch, for a much lower cost per child..It seems a litle wasteful that the facilitiy is only used for such a small nuimer of weeks per year...<P
re his family's personal uses of the property..the Clinton Library double wie in Little Rock has an extravagant personal living apartment for Bubba...
Bingo, tax shelter.