Haven't spent enough time looking into Osho to understand his story in full, but his denial of responsibility for his followers' crimes as "well, actually it was the psychopath I hired to run my organization who did the crimes" is a illustrative of the failings of the guru model.
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Sort of the ur-example, really.
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The guru is (supposed to be) responsible for getting you enlightened, but generally takes so little interest in worldly affairs, they're likely to leave the ground-level situation in a totally untenable state.
Not to mention the lack of interest in fixing their own psychology.
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Enlightened people are monstrously dangerous precisely because they don't have to care about mortality, and so often don't.