Attorneys grilled on sewer fee collections

BRIDGEPORT — Attorney Juda Epstein, who helps the city collect delinquent sewer use bills — and sometimes forecloses on homeowners who cannot pay up — claimed he is not the heartless monster critics portray him to be. “I have tremendous empathy for every single person who’s in foreclosure,” Epstein told the City Council’s Ordinance Committee Monday. “My job is to not take anyone’s home. It’s to make them prioritize this debt and pay the bill.” Epstein’s firm over the years has done a lot of business with City Hall and Bridgeport’s Water Pollution Control Authority. And that has made him a target for a City Council that is investigating what it feels is an overly punitive sewer use bill collection process that needs to be reformed.

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