Carolyn Kaster, File/Associated Press - FILE - In this Feb. 16, 2012 file photo, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cummings says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
WASHINGTON -- A Democratic congressman says a government watchdog has expanded an ethics probe at the National Labor Relations Board after finding more inside information was leaked to an adviser to Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney.
Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings says the board's inspector general discovered additional and more serious improper disclosures by Republican board member Terence Flynn to former NLRB board member Peter Schaumber.
Schaumber is a senior labor adviser to Romney.
Cummings says the inspector general referred his findings to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel for potential violations of the Hatch Act, which prohibits federal employees from engaging in partisan political activity.
Requests for comment were pending with Flynn's personal attorney and Romney's campaign.
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