According to the Virginia Public Access Project, Maher’s Rogue Restaurant Group made an in-kind donation to Stoney’s mayoral campaign in 2016 for event catering valued at $1,090. “After hearing about these serious charges for the first time, the mayor was shocked and deeply disturbed,” Stoney spokesman Jim Nolan said in a statement. Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney officiated Maher’s 2017 marriage to baker Drew Thomasson as his first official act the gesture also was meant to highlight Stoney’s support of same-sex marriage. The chef and restaurateur was also behind the short-lived Japanese restaurant Yaki, opened in 2017 and located at 506 W. Open from 2014 to the end of 2018, Rogue was located in Jackson Ward and received acclaim for its cocktail-focused beverage program. The news has shaken the Richmond restaurant community, with members of the local dining scene expressing their outrage and dismay via social media. Considered a knowledgable source in the dining and beverage realm, Maher has contributed drink recipes in the past for Richmond magazine and until last month was contributing food and beverage articles for online publication The Manual. 27, Maher pleaded guilty to a single count of receipt of child pornography. It was discovered that Maher used the laptop on April 7, 2019, to watch a 23-minute video featuring a “male minor approximately 13 to 15 years old" that “constitutes child pornography,” according to the court documents. When a search warrant was executed on Maher’s Richmond home on April 17, 2019, authorities seized, among other devices, a MacBook Air laptop. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, the Richmond Police Department learned that an email and IP address connected to Maher, 40, uploaded several explicit images to a Dropbox account in December 2018.
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John Maher in 2017 (File photo by Piet E.
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