MARCH 27, 2005 --

Due to a spring snowstorm, LPR stayed at the Torrington, Connecticut, Days Inn -- soon to transfer to Quality Inn -- March 23 and 24, and was able to see the Imus
program on MSNBC.

That morning, The Wall Street Journal published a front page article by Robert
Frank about the Imus ranch in New Mexico, a facility developed by Imus and his wife Deirdre, for severely ill child to visit for two-week periods.

The column one headline stated:

Don Imus's Ranch
For Sick Children
Draws Scrutiny

Imus spent much of the March 24 program responding, quite vigorously, to the piece -- which suggested that the Imuses were using their charity for personal use.

He acknowledged that most people don't have the means to reply to attacks in the media. Imus might have added that it is somewhat difficult for ordinary citizens under attack to gain the interest of the
media which, indeed, might bolster the attacks.

That was the experience of this writer when officials in the Giuliani Administration assisted by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development, created the image of huge property tax arrears to force the Dayton Seaside apartment buildings in Rockaway, Queens into bankruptcy.

(This writer and members of his family were part of the ownership group in these
buildings.)

The mainstream media ignored the city's
artful tax claims to put the builidngs into bankruptcy and force an ownership change.

Some news outlets, notably WNBC-TV, simply echoed the city's claims, and did not report how these taxes were crafted to get new owners, after the city, for many years, failed to settle the property taxes on these buildings, and then refused to settle until there was new ownership.