A prominent Saudi businessman awarded $10 million to Yale Law School late last week for the establishment of a center for the study of Islamic law, according to the Associated Press.

Billionaire Abdallah S. Kamel is the chief executive of the Dallah Albaraka Group banking and real estate enterprise in Saudi Arabia. Breitbart notes some information that hasn't been widely reported about Kamel's bank, namely its ties to al Qaeda:

Kamel’s Dallah Al Baraka Group... has been investigated by U.S. officials for bankrolling al-Qaeda’s operations worldwide.

Moreover, the bank was founded by former al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden along with a group of Sudanese jihadists, the State Department has alleged, according to the Wall Street Journal.

And in the 1998 New York City trials of al-Qaeda members, witnesses testified that Mr. Kamel’s bank had previously transferred hundreds-of-thousands of dollars to al-Qaeda to help them buy an airplane, the report stated.

Additionally, Kamel’s father’s name appears on the “Golden Chain,” a list of alleged al-Qaeda funders that was confiscated by Bosnian authorities after raiding an al-Qaeda front group in 2002.

None of this seemed to concern Yale officials. “Mr. Kamel’s extraordinary generosity will open up exciting new opportunities for Yale Law School and for the entire university, said Yale President Peter Salovey. “The Abdullah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization will enhance research opportunities for our students and other scholars and enable us to disseminate knowledge and insights for the benefit of scholars and leaders all over the world.”

Professor Anthony Kronman, a co-director of the center, said Yale aims to have the best program of its kind in the United States. Their foremost competition is Harvard Law School, which for two decades has had its own Islamic legal studies program, established with support from the Saudi king. Similar centers are located at Georgetown, Columbia, UCLA, and many others.