Hansadutta prabhu's reply to comment above which he sent via e-mail:
As you noted, "You have written tons of articles...... "
Yes, I have written some articles, but the direct scientific Vedic answer to your question is, "The conditioned soul has three objects of allurement or desires, WEALTH - WOMEN / MEN -PRESTIGE or HONOR- (TO BE ADORED, TO BE WORSHIPED). If a person is not Liberated" - "Brahma bhuta prasannatma" then he must be conditioned, meaning he has attraction and desire for WEALTH - WOMAN /MAN - AND HONORS. The devotees designated to act as Rittvik representatives were and are not now liberated souls.
Prabhupada gave them some conditional authority to "ACT AS RITTVIKREPRESENTATIVES OF THE ACHARYA", they disregarded this conditional authority, they unauthorisedly assumed the position of GURU ACHARYAS( Liberated souls ), so when they were exposed to extra-ordinary WEALTH, WOMAN AND HONOR ( WORSHIP ) they became infected -contaminated by LUST, ANGER, GREED, LAMENTATION, ILLUSION AND FINALLY MADNESS ( MYSELF INCLUDED ). What appears to most rank and file devotees as "Conspiracy, collusion and calculated plans for TAKE OVERS ETC..." is only an effect of lust anger greed etc..., not the cause of the problems. LUST, ANGER, GREED, LAMENTATION, ILLUSION AND MADNESS are the cause, everything else is the effect.
In Bhagavad-gita KRSNA says..." When a man dwells on sense objects, he becomes attached to them, from attachment comes lust, from lust comes anger, from anger comes Greed, from greed, bewilderment of memory and loss of intelligence, then he falls down again into the material pool."
At the present moment ISKCON is in the grip of leadership of persons who are under the influence or in the grip of
LUST - ANGER, GREED - LAMENTATION ILLUSION AND MADNESS. This is the simple summary answer to your question. Other details are secondary, not causal, they are effects of the heart disease LUST, ANGER, GREED LAMENTATION, ILLUSION AND MADNESS ( Nunam Pramatta kurute Vikarma ). A conditioned soul cannot remain free from the allure of extra ordinary wealth, beautiful woman, and extraordinary honors which are all heaped upon someone assuming the role of GURU - ACHARYA, DIVINE GRACE,VISHNUPADA, ACHARYAPAD, or any PADA we may label someone.
Devotees mix up the effect for the cause, missing the cause, and missing the effect. They do not read and therefore do not understand the scientific cause and effect of life and matter. They too are sentimental and dogmatic.... like Christians, they mouth formulas from memory without clear insight and realization. They do not understand from Prabhupada, they are in the grip of institutional rules, regulations, formulas and obstinate stupidity, because the leadership is contaminated by disloyalty and disobedience to the order of Srila Prabhupada, posturing themselves in a position for which they are not qualified and not authorized by The Founder Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhakivedanta Swami Prabhupada.
The entire top level leadership of ISKCON ( GURUS, GBC, Temple PRESIDENTS, NNT TRUSTEES etc...) are all implicated in the SINS (Guru Aparadha) of Jayadvaita Swami and company on going falsification of Prabhupada's Divine Gift to humanity in the books of Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita and other works. All of them remain silent while his adulteration and contamination of Srila Prabhupadas Divine work is spoiled more and more as the days go by.
They say a fish rots beginning with the head, so ISKCON is rotting from the head (leadership GURUS, GBC, BBT etc.) on down. If the head of the ISKCON body is rotting, then what can one expect from the body dependent on the leadership of the head??