sentences:  Massachusetts state authority officials also investigated the school, and all investigating parties viewed the video tapes multiple times before the originals of the surveillance tapes were destroyed by Israel, who claimed that he believed there was no further need for them.Nonetheless, the state assistant attorney general claimed that Israel had been ordered to keep them.By May 2011, Israel was prosecuted by the Massachusetts Department of Justice and charged with "child endangerment" and "obstructing justice" for misleading a grand jury over the school's destruction of those tapes, as well as being an accessory after the fact.