A good friend of mine (best man in my wedding) went on to a position of oversite in the building of assembly halls in the U.S., the Caribbean and other island countries. He is an amazing individual who became a multi millionaire making his fortune building vacation resorts and commercial buildings. He ran his own business, worked on JW projects and was also flown around the country by the Watchtower to oversee some of the more difficult child abuse cases.
He is no longer a JW because of what he saw at this level. According to him, while overseeing these projects, there were JW suppliers who regularly overcharged, double billed and or billed for goods that were never received. The likes of which he hadn't seen in his own company when working with "worldly" suppliers.
What he saw during his handling of the various child abuse cases he was assigned to, was heartbreaking for him as a father and tender hearted man, to deal with. He was eventually removed because in one horrible case where the young victim committed suicide, he went against Betehels directive not to contact the local authorities.
I couldn't help but wonder while reading this post, if the reason the Watchtower wants this kept on the down low is because a formal investigation might somehow implicate them as well.
