A set of old federal court records has recently resurfaced in the middle of Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, revealing that Fatten Elkomy, the biological mother of Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed, worked with a Missouri charity known as the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA).

The U.S. Treasury Department designated IARA’s worldwide network under Executive Order 13224 in October 2004, alleging it provided financial support to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban fighters. Federal court records show Elkomy participated in the charity’s financial documentation, including a December 1999 letter concerning an $8,801 transfer to Arab Bank in Amman, Jordan and a January 2001 letter to an IARA official. Another exhibit describes an April 2000 letter involving a $58,995.60 sponsorship transfer for children in Jordan and Iraq.

The Treasury designated five senior officials with IARA as part of its designation, but Elkomy was not among them. The records reviewed do not indicate that she was charged with terrorism-related activity or knowingly financed terrorists.

In 2016, IARA pleaded guilty to conspiracies involving sanctions violations, money laundering, and obstruction of federal tax administration. The organization admitted to secretly transferring $1.375 million to Iraq while federal sanctions were in effect.

Elkomy has been identified as El-Sayed’s biological mother and was raised in Michigan by his father and stepmother. She is the mother of a candidate who earned degrees from the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia before leading Detroit’s health department. The resurfaced records concern Elkomy’s work with IARA, not any actions by El-Sayed himself.