A pair of flashy e-commerce entrepreneurs who bought bankrupt retailers like Pier 1 Imports, RadioShack, and Modell’s Sporting Goods were accused by the feds this week of running a Ponzi scheme — and the clampdown came after ex-employees blew the whistle on them, The Post has learned.

The duo bilked hundreds of investors out of $112 million through Miami-based Retail Ecommerce Ventures or REV, according to a US Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit filed in Florida federal court on Tuesday.

What the lawsuit didn’t mention is that a group of their former employees had reached out to the SEC in 2023, raising concerns about suspicious business dealings, sources said. 5

“We have been trying to get someone to expose Tai Lopez and his gang of fraudsters for a long time,” one o

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