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.
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.