Jerome O'Hara, former employee with Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, enters the Manhattan Federal Courthouse in the Manhattan Borough of New York March 5, 2014. Five former aides of infamous swindler Bernard Madoff used an "avalanche of lies" to help him carry out his decades-long Ponzi scheme, each with a specific role to ensure that investors, auditors and regulators were kept in the dark, a prosecutor said on Tuesday in the closing phase of their trial. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS CRIME LAW HEADSHOT)