For it to be leverage, it needs to be something that they wouldn't want exposed, but also something he is not going to want exposed either.
Agreed!
Watchtower hates it when CSA survivors such as myself, expose what they have done. It's the one thing that Watchtower can't sweep under the rug when it goes public and they know it.
Speculating here: If a JW Elder was caught harming a child sexually, admitted to it and then said "If you disfellowship me for this, I will expose you for covering up that brother or sister's crime of CSA, as I have the evidence in paper and electronic format" would that be a good enough reason? Mmmm makes me think.
I am a CSA survivor and when my father confessed to his crimes to the elders, he got reproved. That really does not look good for WT, because it is there in black and white after a FOI request, screened to millions of homes in July of 2002, on BBC Panorama WT looked really bad.
WT tried to do some damage control by telling members not to watch it but if they felt compelled to watch it, they need to be aware that these are apostates speaking. Some JW's even called us actors. Some swore that I was never a JW because I was smoking and JW's don't smoke. I used it to cope with my trauma. Still do. They changed the name of my old congregation to a different town, but kept the building in Stevenston. Figure that one out. It's now known as the Kilbirnie congregation.
So it has to be something really heinous for Watchtower and James Lloyd Evans. Did he actually club any baby seals? He says he didn't but makes you think eh? What is it that both him and Watchtower do not want to be getting exposed? The truth never stays hidden for long.