Not running a charity, and financed by "greedy investors" looking to make big profits, they attempt to compensate themselves by charging "loan-shark" rates of 80%.

FORBES

The plot of "Lost in Yonkers" sounds like the premise for a second-rate sitcom: Eddie (Dominic Comperatore) gets into hot water with a loan shark, stows his two boys (Matthew Gumley and Russell Posner) with his gargoyle-like mother (Cynthia Harris) and goofy sister (Finnerty Steeves) and goes on the lam.

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