In Boucher's draft year he suddenly switched billet families and then a few months later switched from the OHL to NCAA even though he already had a spot lined up - and you think the Lou and Conte didn't ask about that?
Lou is a totalitarian and micromanager who doesn't let anything get by him. He knows every single thing about every single person in his organization. And this is just one in a long streak from 2010-2014 where stuff like this was happening.
2010 - Drafted Jon Merrill who had been suspended for "character issues" before the draft. He was later suspended again at college for the same "character issues," which later turned out to be stalking/harassing a female classmate. And now he's being implicated in obtaining sexual images of a minor while he played for the Devils.
2011 - Drafted Reid Boucher. Again, this happened before his draft year and there were suspicious changes to where Boucher was living and playing, which are pretty standard things to look into in his draft year. And there appear to be multiple victims.
2012 - Drafted Ben Johnson. A year after he was drafted he was accused of raping two women, one of whom was 16 at the time. The Devils signed him to an ELC while his case was pending and only terminated his contract after he was convicted. Considering he admitted to the acts (his defense was they consented), Lou was totally fine knowing his player who was 19 at the time had sex with a minor and, was willing to give him an NHL career until it became a PR nightmare.
2013 - Drafted Myles Bell. Bell was a 17 year old drunk driver who killed his girlfriend in a fatal accident while going +100 miles an hour. He got off with two years probation and community service because he was a minor. He went undrafted that his first two years of eligibility, plead to a lesser charge, and the Devils took him later as an overager. When he was drafted they all talked about "second chances" and all that stuff but didn't really say anything about why he earned a second chance. This is not a sex crime and there's no evidence of any criminal behavior from him since, but put in the context of the other guys he took a pattern emerges.
Pretty clear history of Lou ignoring criminal behavior, and these are just the ones that have been made public. In the case of Merrill and Boucher there are multiple incidents which appear to have happened after the player was drafted and signed by NJ, which makes Lou an enabler. He's either lying about not knowing or doing a pretty shitty job as GM (or both).
