On Jan. 8, Israeli Channel 2 news published an audio recording of Yair Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son, speaking with Nir Maimon, the son of Israeli tycoon Kobi Maimon. The conversation took place in 2015 during a night of excess in Tel Aviv. The language used, as much of the content of the conversation, captured news headlines.

Now, imagine one of the major news outlets in the United States airing a recorded conversation in which President Donald Trump’s son is heard telling the son of an American gas tycoon, “My father cut a great deal for your father, bro. You should be thanking me. My dad fought Congress to push this through, bro. … My dad just arranged for yours to make $20 billion. True, my father shafted you with the committee that debated the US gas regulation initiative, but later he made it right. … My dad arranged $20 billion for your dad, and you’re whining with me about 400 shekels?” How many hours would it take the Justice Department to appoint a special counsel or for the FBI to launch an investigation into suspected bribery of major proportions and to summon all those involved?

It’s hard to believe that US investigators would have been taken in by claims that the recording featured nothing more than meaningless chatter by a couple of frivolous youths who had imbibed one too many. On the contrary. George Papadopoulos, who served as a Trump foreign affairs adviser, recently affirmed the Talmudic saying that “when wine goes in, secrets come out” (Sanhedrin 38a). In an alcohol-induced confession to an Australian diplomat in a London bar, Papadopoulos confided that Moscow was in possession of incriminating information about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. Attempts by Trump adviser Michael Caputo to portray Papadopoulos as a clueless errand boy with no access to significant information on Trump’s campaign failed to stop the snowball that is now nearing the Oval Office.

Even if Yair Netanyahu’s father did not exactly “arrange” for gas mogul Maimon to make $20 billion, an investigation is in order to find out whether Netanyahu Junior did not lift the lid off a Pandora’s box of corruption.