Conspicuously missing from the FBI’s information that first described the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing? A reward for information leading to their capture.
Public safety unions in Boston put a $50,000 bounty on the heads of the suspects, but the feds, skirting tradition, sat out the reward game.
Blame the sequester. House and administration aides confirmed that the automatic budget cuts that U.S. agencies are making put some constraints on issuing discretionary monetary awards without a formal review of the proposed spending.
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