As I understand the situation, the FDS is the 144,000 Anointed Ones.
The GB is the visible representative of the FDS, and it is the GB's responsibility to govern and teach the FDS.
That is the way I understood the GB interprets Matt 24:45. I cover this in:
http://www.jwstudies.com/FDS_and_its_GB.pdf
The judge might not be aware that the WTS has a religious body within its membership who take a religious vow of service and poverty. This has been used by the WTS in legal presentations in other jurisdictions (therefore legal precedence applies), which then has the potential to tarnish them with the brush that taints other religious bodies. What did the GB have to hide? Did it not want it to be known they are paying millions in compensation to victims of sexual abuse?
Doug