Reprehensible donation

Re “Hurricane Donation Benefited Bush Son,” March 25

If it is true that Barbara Bush required that part or all of her “donation” to the Bush-Clinton Relief Fund on behalf of Katrina victims be used to purchase software from her son Neil’s firm, then that was a gift to him and should be subject to tax law. Designating that funds be used for educational software is one thing, but dictating that a family member should get the business and make a profit from it is reprehensible. It subverts the very foundation of nonprofit tax exemption.

RON SAMUELS

Studio City