Raven Escalates Legal Battle: Files Criminal Perjury Complaint Against As. Attorney General Buttino

BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Dec. 4, 2025 - PRLog -- Artist Julian Raven has unleashed a sweeping legal counteroffensive in his ongoing battle with the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), filing a criminal perjury complaint against Assistant Attorney General Nicholas C. Buttino at the Elmira Police Department Detective Bureau. The complaint, now being forwarded for potential prosecution by Chemung County District Attorney Wetmore, marks a dramatic escalation in a case already plagued with procedural irregularities, false statements, and systemic due-process failures at both the state and federal levels.

Raven's criminal complaint details allegations that AAG Buttino made materially false statements during the November 14 Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) hearing before New York Supreme Court Justice Christopher Baker—statements that contradict the DEC's own written records. Incredibly, Raven notes that Justice Baker never swore in either party, allowing unsworn and unverified factual representations to be treated as evidence while shaping the outcome of the hearing. "An attorney is an officer of the court," Raven said. "When an Assistant Attorney General knowingly lies in open court, unsworn or not, that is not litigation — that is criminal misconduct."

Following the deeply flawed November 14 hearing, Raven filed a sweeping Omnibus Motion in Chemung County Supreme Court, demanding rulings on subpoenas, sanctions, in camera review of withheld DEC emails, judicial recusal, and correction of the corrupted court record. His motion documents the judge's acceptance of false statements, silence on evidentiary requests, and refusal to address extra-judicial knowledge he openly admitted on the record.

Meanwhile, the federal branch of Raven's litigation exploded this week when U.S. District Judge Anne M. Nardacci issued an Order to Show Cause — but Raven received the mailed notice only one day before the deadline, making timely response virtually impossible. Raven filed a Notice of Irregular Service and a Motion for Reconsideration, pointing out that he discovered the order only because he checked the docket himself. "If I had not monitored the docket," Raven said, "I would have missed a federal deadline because the court's mailing arrived nine days late. The system is failing at every level."

Now, with a criminal perjury complaint in motion, Raven says the next move belongs to DA Wetmore:

"Will the District Attorney uphold the law and prosecute perjury committed by a state official?

Raven's fight centers on DEC's catastrophic misclassification of his Elmira property — a mistake rooted in a 2017 Order on Consent that confused his building with a dry-cleaner site 130 miles away. The resulting administrative chaos has subjected him to eight years of unlawful enforcement, coercion, and due-process violations.

With state court motions pending, a federal judge under pressure to examine the full record, and now a criminal complaint targeting the integrity of the state's representation.

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