Ear­li­er this month, Con­gress­man George Miller (D‑Calif.), the top Demo­c­rat on the House Edu­ca­tion and Work­force Com­mit­tee, com­plained that House GOP mem­bers were block­ing the release of a Nation­al Labor Board Rela­tions Inspec­tor General’s report. The report, which Miller’s office was even­tu­al­ly able to obtain and release late Fri­day, shows that GOP NLRB Mem­ber Ter­ence Fly­nn broke ethics rules by trad­ing pri­vate NLRB case infor­ma­tion for per­son­al gain to anti-union law firms when he worked as chief coun­sel to GOP NLRB Mem­ber Bri­an Hayes dur­ing the 2010 – 2011 peri­od. (Pres­i­dent Oba­ma appoint­ed Fly­nn to the NLRB in January.)

The report (PDF) found that Fly­nn fun­neled sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion to Mitt Romney’s labor pol­i­cy co-chair — for­mer GOP NLRB mem­ber Peter Schaum­ber, who left the inde­pen­dent fed­er­al agency 2010 — to be used in polit­i­cal attacks on the Board. And it rec­om­mends the Depart­ment of Jus­tice inves­ti­gate his actions.

​“Giv­en Mr. Fly­n­n’s posi­tion as a chief coun­sel and his years of ser­vice, he knew, or should have known, that he had a duty to main­tain the con­fi­dence of the infor­ma­tion that he received in the per­for­mance of his offi­cial duties,” the report states. Accord­ing to the Inspec­tor General’s report, Fly­nn passed on ​“lead case lists, pre-deci­sion­al votes and posi­tions of the mem­bers, the iden­ti­ty of coun­sel assigned to a case, the sta­tus of cas­es, the research­ing issues in cas­es, the delib­er­a­tion of the for­mer Chair­man in [a case], the desire of two mem­bers to press for­ward in [a case], and the analy­sis of the Board’s res­o­lu­tion on” a pro­posed rule cur­rent­ly in the process of rulemaking.

Some of this infor­ma­tion was used by Schaum­ber as part of a pub­lic cam­paign against the NLRB. The Inspec­tor Gen­er­al report states that Flynn’s com­put­er was used to edit a busi­ness plan for Peter Schaumber’s law prac­tice to be used when he left the NLRB in 2010 (it does­n’t assert that Fly­nn him­self did this edit­ing). The plan said that Schaum­ber would devel­op a law prac­tice ​“in part by lever­ag­ing my Agency con­nec­tions and focus­ing the atten­tion of senior man­age­ment on the like­ly pri­or­i­ties of the Oba­ma board and strate­gies to respond to them.”

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