Birmingham lawyer Richard Jaffe says he never represented U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore or his wife, Kayla. But he did represent their son on a drug charge a couple of years ago.

One publication, Forward, however, recently identified Jaffe as the Jewish lawyer Kayla Moore referenced the night before the Dec. 12 election that her husband lost to Democrat Doug Jones. Whether she was talking about him or not, Jaffe says he was offended by Kayla Moore's comment.

"The comment is in and of itself problematic for obvious reasons," Jaffe told AL.com. "Such comments are actually painful to any minority."

"Whatever point that was trying to be made (by Kayla) certainly was not," Jaffe said.

Kayla Moore on Tuesday night, responded through a spokesperson that she was not referring to Jaffe in her comments. "Kayla was certainly not referring to Richard Jaffe but rather to an attorney currently employed by her Foundation for Moral Law," according to a statement issued on behalf of Kayla Moore.

The statement, however, did not provide the name of the attorney.

Kayla Moore, at a rally on Dec. 11, fought back against accusations that her husband doesn't support blacks or Jews, by saying at one point that one of their attorneys "is a Jew."

She pointed out that her husband appointed the first black marshal to the state Supreme Court and said they also have many friends who are black. She also refuted allegations that her husband is anti-Semitic by saying "Well, one of our attorneys is a Jew ... We have very close friends who are Jewish and rabbis."

AL.com sought to find out which lawyer Kayla Moore had referenced. Then on Wednesday the Washington Examiner identified the Jewish lawyer as Jaffe. Forward, another publication had done so on Dec. 28 in a column by Liz Brody.

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Kayla Moore had not responded to AL.com's request for comment prior to publication of this story.

Jaffe says he never represented the Moores.

"I don't know who she (Kayla Moore) is talking about," Jaffe said of her comments at the rally. "I can't say whether she was referring to me because again I have never represented judge Moore or Kayla Moore."

"I did represent their son (Caleb) a few years ago," Jaffe said. "She (Kayla Moore) also was speaking in the present tense," he said.

Jaffe had represented Caleb in a criminal drug case.

Jaffe has been a big supporter and contributor of Doug Jones and on Tuesday was heading to Washington D.C. to be a guest in the Senate gallery for Jones' swearing in ceremony on Wednesday. "We've been close friends for 30 years," Jaffe said of Jones.

Jaffe served as master of ceremonies when Jones was inducted as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama in the late 1990s.

Jaffe, in his book "Quest for Justice", wrote about his successful defense of clients charged with capital murder and the exoneration of three removed from death row. He also had other high profile clients such as Eric Robert Rudolph, the man who pleaded guilty to bombings in Atlanta, including the 1996 Olympic Park bombing and the abortion clinic bombing in Birmingham that killed a Birmingham police officer and seriously injured a clinic employee. Jaffe was the lead attorney for Rudolph for 14 months after Rudolph's capture.