Ryne Miller, the former U.S. general counsel for FTX, isn’t a defendant in a new customer lawsuit alleging that Sullivan & Cromwell “aided” in the crypto exchange’s multibillion-dollar fraud, extracting millions of dollars in fees as the Bahamas-based company ran itself into the ground and millions more as its bankruptcy counsel.

But the suit, filed Friday in federal court in Miami, casts Miller, who was an S&C partner before joining FTX in 2021, as the law firm’s “man on the inside,” the key FTX conduit funneling work to the Manhattan-based firm.

Ryne Miller of Miller Strategic Partners. Courtesy photo