In Gainsborough UK, at least two elders were d/f for embezzelment and in New Plymouth NZ, the Waitara congregation had nearly the whole maori contigency of elders removed for INCEST!!!
I was brought before a judicial commitee, not with the usual 3 elders, but 2 whole body of elders from 2 congregations, totalling 8 in all. And my 'crime' for which I warrented such attention...Because I threatened to go to court because my then JW husband had beaten my 2yr old so severely that he had caused internal bleeding and I also threatened to expose his dossier of porno/beastiality, that I was accused of, by the afore mentioned elders, as planting on the computer!! I was told that you cant take your 'brother' to court, and that I had no grounds for scriptural divorce, and that if I didnt do it 'their way', I was never to darken their door again.
Retford, Notts...fraud & stealing was covered up & the victim was asked not to go to the police as the situation locally was 'sensitive' as a JW child abuse case was being investigated in a neighboring congregation.
Problem Elders....they ARE the problem.