Hate crime charges filed against Michael Vivona in attack on elderly Korean couple SANTA ANA, California (KCAL, KCBS) — A 26-year-old man was charged with multiple hate crimes after punching an elderly Asian couple as they took a walk and a verbal attack on Japanese American Olympic karate athlete, Sakura Kokumai, all at the same park in Orange. Michael Orlando Vivona, of Orange, was charged with two felony counts each of elder abuse and battery – hate crime causing injury, and two felony hate crime enhancements. Vivona remains in custody on $65,000 bail. “If you engage in hate-motivated crimes, you will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “My prosecutors have and will continue to aggressively prosecute haters who target Asians as well as anyone who is the victim of a hate crime whether it is as a result of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other protected class.”