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MAY 6, 2019

Florida Producer Survives Undercover Video Attack

LEADERSHIP BY: MIKE OPPERMAN

Jacob Larson saw he’d missed a bunch of calls, but he finally had a chance to pick up this one. As he listened to the lady on the other end of the phone, he struggled to process what he was hearing. She said she was a reporter from a Palm Beach news station. She asked if Larson had any comment on the video that had just posted online. She said there was a press conference in two hours, and asked if he’d like to comment. He wondered what on earth she could be talking about.

She said she’d email him a link to the video. The 40 seconds it took for it to come through seemed like 40 hours. When he saw the video, the pit in his stomach grew to a bowling ball.

Someone had shot an undercover video on his dairy.

“I’ll always remember that day, Nov. 9, 2017,” Larson recalls. “We really didn’t have any warning. By the time she emailed it to me it was already online. Boy, it was rough. The initial reaction when I first saw it, I was just gut shot. I literally didn’t eat anything for 24 hours. I just wanted to throw up.”