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This is a ludicrous story from Argentina. In 2001, the public broadcaster ATC was replaced by TV Pública. Yet here we are, 14 years later (!), and ATC still is on the books, with one employee and a budget of about $96,000 USD. The employee is a lawyer who has been handling ATC's liquidation. Most of the budget is for the liquidator's salary, but 35% of it was earmarked for "goods and services". He also was paid for travel to and from his home city of Santa Fe, yet for tax purposes his home is in Buenos Aires. He also works as an insurance agent, even though he affirmed in 2012 and 2013 that he spent at least 160 hours a month working on the liquidation of the long-dead public broadcaster. The original investigation here explains that ATC might likely still on the books for legal reasons to face various court cases, but otherwise it looks like some plush corruption. This is the definition of a sinecure.