I was so happy to see (as I KNEW he would) that David made the right decision.

After reading all this, and maybe some posts were removed or I skimmed over them, but someone brought up the point that the editors may be a bit culpable in all this and I did not see much (or any) response to this.
IMHO I agree with this.
Somebody should be watching out for you guys!
I also believe that when a writer sees some plagiarism of his work, along with getting upset about it, be doubly sure it’s the real thing and REPORT it. It could lead to another major plagiarist and give pause to would be offenders.