A Lyft driver who punched his Jewish and Israeli passenger at the San Francisco International Airport was acquitted of committing a federal hate crime by a federal jury on Wednesday.
The jury deliberated for about five hours before rendering the unanimous not guilty verdict for Csaba John Csukás, who struck the passenger, identified in the indictment as S.B., a Google employee returning home from a business trip, on the side of the face in late October 2023.
Federal prosecutors charged Csukás with violating the The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, alleging he was motivated by ...
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