One of the smell tests I always apply to stories like this is to ask myself how easy it would be to imagine it as the title of a Snopes entry (Chinese prisonlaborforced to play MMOs so guards can steal credits).
One of the most powerful union leaders at a time that unions wielded a great deal of sway over elections -- and were notoriously tied to organized crime -- Hoffa was forced out of the organized labor movement when he was sent to prison in 1967.