Technically, Elle's attempts at fundraising are a commercial co-venture which means she has to meet the various state requirements, including filing requirements. It also means she has to have specific start and end dates and details on any min/max donation. I would assume a lawyer would make sure they were complying, and usually the charity would make a partner they were working with aware (but no clue if this charity would know enough to say something). Thing is, this seems like she threw it together quickly, so I have no clue how she would have done the filings/gotten the bonds in time.
The one thing we know about Elle is she’s geeedy. Sure, she spends around $400 every year around Grissmas on a cardholder or LooWhee WheeTaah mini agenda, for her subbies, which doesn’t make sense since she doesn’t even spend that on Ginette. I’m going to guess it has more to do with a tax write off at the end of the year than generosity since she has to pay taxes on her YouTube earnings. I know that a lot of American YouTubers try to scam the system by buying themselves stuff on camera and claiming it as a business expense because they say it’s for YouTube content. The IRS just hasn’t caught up with them yet.
While presumably Elle hasn’t gone down that route, she could legitimately write off the Grissmas purchase she gives away each year since it is filmed for content and it’s not an egregious amount. The point is, she never does anything unless it benefits herself.
Same goes for her “charitable giving”. She
had to come up with something to offset the greedy pandemic fiasco she pulled with daily hive. Are we supposed to just take her word that she’s going to give 10% of the proceeds of her sales from this new fugly jewelry line aka Orchidee Collection for the month of May and that she’ll actually match it?
Let’s give her the benefit of the doubt and say she sold $4,000 worth of whatever this new line is called for the month of May. She is saying that 10% of those sales will go to Nurses House, which is $400. She said she will match that amount (up to $1,000), which is $400. So if we believe her, she’s giving $800 that she can write off on her taxes. That is obviously different from the direct donations made by her subbies on the Nurses House website that Elle is campaigning for, which again is just reactionary damage control from the daily hive.
Edited: The actual donation match (up to $1,000) is for direct donation to Nurses House not matching 10% of May sales for the Orchid Collection. So right now, the direct donations are at $380, so Elle will match that. At least that’s more legit, and I want to see receipts on NH webpage that she actually matches direct donations. Edited: The actual donation match (up to $1,000) is for direct donation to Nurses House not matching 10% of May sales for the Orchid Collection. So right now, the direct donations are at $380, so Elle will match that. At least that’s more legit, and I want to see receipts on NH webpage that she actually matches direct donations. Regardless, it’s due to the pandemic scam she was running and got caught. And it’s a tax write off for her.
Speaking of taxes, she’d better be crossing all her T’s and dotting all her I’s where Nouvelle Pearl and YouTube are concerned...it’s called quarterly taxes and she doesn’t strike me as someone who is good with keeping records, because she’s pretty lazy and sloppy. However, given she was a fraud investigator (and not in-house counsel) she
should be great at this, but she’s shady and a big fraud herself so I side eye her and keep in mind how self serving she is. And in the US, in order to write off 25% of her rent, she has to have a second bedroom that is used for an office for her business, it cannot be a “nook”, sunroom, or her dining room. The room must be a dedicated office with a door. And if Eleonore or Eleanor Florence Lecocq or Elle Florence or Nouvelle Pearl ever gets audited, which could happen because there are many eyes on her now and any one of us could make a call or email the IRS if we suspect fraud, she would be investigated. So watch your P’s and Q’s, Eleanor Florence Lecocq.
And to Rick's credit, as creepy and off-putting as most of us find him, I will say he seems to have a clear idea of who is he (vibrams and pretentiousness and all) and he sticks to that narrative. In a way, him being authentic makes him almost more sympathetic and likable than Elle. If you ever read these Dicky, just wanna say Elle doesn't deserve better than you like people were saying, and keep clipping away at whatever pace that suits you. 
