00:00So there's another interesting allegation surrounding the Democratic candidate for Senate from Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed.
00:06This one involving a charity that his father, Muhammad El-Sayed, has served on the board of for several years.
00:13Muhammad El-Sayed has been a board member of Life for Relief and Development since 2020, at least.
00:19Life for Relief and Development has a long history of drawing from Muslim donors.
00:22And in 2004, at the height of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, soldiers found boxes of evidence and rings
00:29of documents suggesting that the charity, which was supposed to help the needy and the disadvantaged, had actually been funneling
00:36donors' money via the nation of Jordan to the regime of the since-deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
00:42That evidence kicked off a long-running criminal and civil case against the group that only concluded in 2014, when
00:49Life for Relief and Development paid a settlement of around $780,000.
00:54Federal investigators also found ties between Life for Relief and Development and the Islamic African Relief Agency, another charity suspected
01:02of funneling support for bad actors in the Middle East, specifically Hamas,
01:07and a charity for which Abdul El-Sayed's mother happened to be employed for a short time.
01:13Now, this is just the latest example of El-Sayed or members of his family being accused of being linked
01:18to unscrupulous actors with ties to the Middle East, ties to Islamic extremists, and ties to out-and-out terror
01:26groups.
