I think if demise staff wants to prevent having an issue like this in the future, they should publicly state the rules to who ever is using staff for events like this, if you don't agree then you don't get the sponsorship of the staff. Maybe if your running an event like this and staff is involved, item transfers should be between staff or the player running the event if he has agreed to event rules that disallow scams ect. There is a level of trust that every player should be able to have when demise staff is involved. If that trust is broken, ppl will find better places to go. I think that items should be returned to save that trust. I also think that monk should be allowed to return because there was no agreement that he wouldn't scam. At the same time I think monk has truely tarnished the trust ability of player run events. The repercussions of what he did will for ever change decent fun events like this and for that reason, I feel that he should be punished... All chars turned red and banished to a life in felucia, possibly pending a trial?? Could be an event run by the staff to help recreate their trust. Just a thought!!!
Just a note to my opinion on this... I don't know monk or any of the staff members at all, I actually just recently returned to the game. It truely bumms me out that this happened because when I played osi I was heavily involved with running similar events, I know that being able to participate in events like this are going to be much more difficult in the future, and something needs to be done, and clear rules need to be applied!!!