[4] Israel "Izzy" Englander was born in 1948 and was raised in a Polish-Jewish family in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn.
[1] His Polish parents were deported to a Soviet labor camp after the war, where Englander's two older sisters were born.
During college, he interned at Oppenheimer & Co. (where his future brother-in-law, Jack Nash, would eventually become president and chairman) and at the New York Stock Exchange.
In February 1988, when Boesky was later convicted of insider trading, and agreed to testify against Mulheren in a plea deal to receive a lesser sentence,[1] Mulheren was arrested for carrying a loaded rifle[6] and convicted of orchestrating illegal stock trades for Boesky, but the ruling was later overturned.
Although Englander was never implicated in the matter in any way whatsoever, Jamie Securities was dissolved in 1988 due to the negative publicity in the aftermath of Mulheren's situation.
[2][10] In 2014, he bought a duplex apartment at New York City's Park Avenue for US$71.3 million, a record price for a Manhattan co-op.
[1] Englander serves on the board of Weill Cornell Medical College[14] and the Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty.