The state could have just turned it over to the feds, but why should they. The state officers did the entire investigations and the work that went with it. and the penalty money should go to the PA Game Commission not to the federal treasury. In PA penalty money goes to the game and or fish agencies and not to the state general fund. As I said, the feds most certainly would have plea bargined it away to a civil penalty instead of a criminal penalty because the US attornies are lazy and don't want to lower themselves to try game cases in federal court.