Imus in the Morning

State attorneys general in New Mexico and New York are quizzing radio personality Don Imus about his San Miguel County ranch.

Imus and his wife, Deirdre, opened the 4,000-acre ranch between Santa Fe and Las Vegas, N.M., in 1999 as a summer camp for sick children.

But the New York-based charity’s multimillion-dollar annual budget and the Imus family’s use of the ranch’s well-appointed facilities have drawn scrutiny from government officials. …

The nonprofit ranch spent $2.6 million last year while hosting only about 100 children, The Wall Street Journal reported in a front-page story Thursday. The newspaper said experts consider that an unusually high dollar-tochild ratio for a charity.

The New Mexican

NewMexiKen supposes that too many rug rats might really mess up the “14,000-squarefoot adobe mansion, swimming pool and billiard hall” and its “Asian and American Indian rugs, rustic chandeliers and an outdoor shower designed to look like Aztec ruins.”

Update March 26th: New York Attorney General Spitzer has closed his inquiry into the Imus Ranch without finding any impropriety The New York Times reported Friday.