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Two years after the NBC10 Investigators discovered issues with the city’s crime reward program, the tipster whose case the unit has been following received a payment.

“I got awarded the money,” they said in an interview this week.

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The tipster, whose identity we are concealing to protect their identity, got a $20,000 check.

“Relieved, ecstatic,” they said. “It could have came with a little bit of interest on there.”

A few years ago, the informant provided Philadelphia Police a tip that led to the arrest -- and later conviction of a homicide suspect.

The City has a longstanding $20,0000 reward for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of homicide suspects.

But when we

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