A lawyer for a Nevada man being charged $95,553.08 for the cleanup of his home said the fee could have been avoided if the city waited for TV show “Hoard­ers.” Sun City Sum­mer­lin is charg­ing Ken­neth Epstein, 55, the fee for remov­ing the trash as well as live and dead cats from his home fol­low­ing his Octo­ber 12th arrest on charges of fail­ure to reg­is­ter a pis­tol, unjus­ti­fi­able injury to ani­mals, fail­ure to have a cat fanciers license, vio­lat­ing the fire code and two counts of pub­lic nui­sance. Epstein’s lawyer said she had con­tacted the TV show “Hoard­ers” about doing an episode about her client, and they would have cleaned the home for free, but the city had already started work on the prop­erty. Crews removed at least 41 tons of mate­r­ial from the prop­erty, along with 55 cats, includ­ing 15 dead cats and 19 that later had to be euthanized.

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